(목동김상철토플전문학원) 고3 김혜빈 2017.08.27 토플 독립형 WT-People are less concerned with the accuracy of the media

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People are less concerned with the accuracy of the media (such as television, radio and newspapers etc) than in the past; these people believe that the information and new stories provided by present media is incorrect and could cause problems in for the public. 

Over the past few decades, the media has been developing rapidly in both variety and quality. So, it has been argued whether the information provided by the media is more accurate today than the past. Some might argue that the media such as televisions, radios and newspapers of the past were more correct than today, while others might disagree with this. However, I am fully convinced that the media today is more correct and accurate than that of the past. Actually, I have a couple of reasons to develop my idea and will explain and develop them in the next following paragraphs below.

First of all, today’s media has increased in number and variety, and it has made communication and interaction among people easier than the past. On the other hand, the media of the past had no variety, and it didn’t have the ability or power to allow people to communicate with each other. This made it hard for people to find out and research if the information published by the media is really true. Today, a lot of social Medias and technological devices have developed and gave people the ability to compare information and debate with other people with different perspectives. Although some people might say that the past media is more accurate because the media today is so large and various that it allows so many inaccurate information to be published, the past media caused many more problems because of the lack of variety in Medias and interaction among people. To give an example of this, there was an important occurrence in my country many years ago. The government suddenly kept people out of a state in my country for some unknown reason. The government also banned people from entering the state from outside. While this was a mystery to the people living in other states, the people trapped within the state were being killed by the government’s order just because they protested for their rights. After killed many innocent elderly, children, housewives, workers and students, the government announced that those people were being suppressed for abandoning and rebelling against the country. The government published lies on the media, and people were unable to know about the truth because there were no sources to find information from. The government kept on lying about the people in the within the state, saying that the people were crazy, abusive, violent, and dishonorable. There were some newspaper factories and radio stations that tried to expose the truth, but the government banned and shut everything down. Without knowing the truth, the whole nation believed the few Media that they had and thanked the government for taking care of any possible trouble that could happen within our country. After decades, it was revealed by a more developed media that the government had been lying about the innocent people that were killed within the state. This only happened because people were able to find more accurate information with various kinds of media and communicate and debate with each other about the issue. Today, the media is more accurate and provides dependable information than the past media did in the past because the well-developed media provides people to find the correct information out of the incorrect. In other words, the information provided by today’s media is more correct than the past.

Moreover, the present media is more accurate than the past because people are more experienced in investigating about the accuracy of the media, which prevents the media from publishing inaccurate stories and information. In the past, it was easy for the media to provide information that was incorrect or imprecise because the people of the past were inexperienced and believed whatever the media informed them about. Although some people might say that it is a fact that the media today are more inaccurate because so many magazines and television channels often increase their popularities by providing unofficial ideas and information, those channels also has a very large number of audience that has the experience and ability to investigate about those rumors. For example, there was a shipwreck a few years ago that greatly depressed the people of my nation. However, the media claimed that it wasn’t a big problem and the people from the shipwreck were all saved. Some people thought this was true while others were doubtful and decided to investigate more through the Internet. Since there are now more experienced people and more sources and more types of media to find investigate from, people tried to find out if the media was really telling the truth. However, many people found out that it was almost impossible to save so many people from a sinking ship, and many of the students who were aboard were still not found. Not only that, people found out that the president’s actions and words did not correctly match along with the situation. While the media claimed that everything was okay, people were already investigating from behind. People on the Internet used news videos and photographs to state and expose the truth. The truth was that many people died in the shipwreck and the officers were not able to save many of them even when they had the chance to. After this, people came with an uproar. In other words, today’s audience of the media prevents the media from making even the smallest mistake of inaccuracy. Therefore, today’s media is more accurate than the past.