In today’s modern world, I believe people need to see to believe. There are countless newsworthy events happening every second of every day all around the world, and the only way for the public to have knowledge of them is through the news media. Photography and video are powerful mediums that allow people to feel present in a space where they are not, and privy to information they may not have been otherwise. We as a society are addicted to being visually stimulated almost constantly. Through youtube, television, movies, news, and more, there is a practically endless stream of visual media of all varieties for the public to consume at any given time. Maybe, then, the best way to inform the public is through the media that they are accustomed to and comfortable with.
As a child, my parents never withheld information from me if I asked a question to which the answer may have been beyond my maturity level. If I couldn’t understand something, it was left at face value until I grew older and was able to put old information into a new context and understand what I had been told. The point is that just because a person in a certain country may not be in the correct context to understand issues going on in another country, or in an obscure section of our own, doesn’t mean that we should be cut off from the information in the first place. Video and photography are excellent ways to introduce individuals to ideas that they may not be familiar with. They can be the bridge that the public uses to pass from the realm of their own knowledge to the infinite realm of the unknown.
What I feel passionate about is not just adding in quantity but in quality to the lexicon of news media that exists in the world. The way the media portrays important events to the public is key to maintaining a society based on truth and fact, which is a value that I feel is absolutely essential to uphold.
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