However, for several reasons, I find the media’s current trend toward highlights and the sensational to be justifiable. First, the world is becoming an increasingly eventful place; thus, with each passing year, it becomes a more oreroess task for the media to attempt full news coverage. Second, we are becoming an increasingly busy society. The average person spends time atwork now than a generation ago.

Since we have far less tirr today for nei   highlights must often-stilfce. Third, the media does in fact  provide full coverage of. important events: anyone can And such coverage beyond their newspaper’s front page, on daily PBS news programs, and on the Internet. I would wholeheartedly agree with the speaker if the sensational highlights were all the media were willing or permitted to provide; this scenario would be tantamount to thought control on a mass scale and would serve to undermine our free society.

However, I am aware of no evidence of any trend in this direction. To the contrary, in my observation, the media are informing us more fully than ever before; we just need to seek out that information.

On balance, then, the speaker’s claim is not defensible. in the final analysis, the media serves its proper function by merely providing what we in a free society demand. Thus, any argument about ‘how the media should or  should  not  behave–regardless  of  its  merits  from  a  normative standpoint-begs the question.

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