Monday, October 19, 2009

Television...a powerful media


Istanbul- there was reported that the protest about the conflict between Turkey and Israel. This issue is caused by Turkish’s drama called “Ayrilik- Askta ve Savasta Fillistin” which reflects vicious and aggressive of Israel soldiers.

After the first episode’s drama was released, mostly of Islamic displease as some scene in drama contributed complaint for example a soldier shoot a girl or shooting a Palestinian man while he was holding his baby. They believe that those scenes will lead to negative perspective among audiences. Israel’s protester attempted to stop the drama by sending the letter the foreign minister of Turkey.

However, Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign minister of Turkey clarified that the department didn’t have authorize to concern about broadcast activities. Moreover, he claimed that there is not censorship in the country. On the other hand, TRT television owner suggested that all most of drama always based on the previous issues such as the conflict between American and Vietnamese or Italian against Tunisians. The company just uses those situations to be the pilot of drama series.

The fact that the Israel was against Palestinian in GAZA at the beginning of this year made Islamic have no peaceful so they would like to stop anything that occur the negative image to the country. It is widely known that Turkey has been regarded as one of the most popular destinations, therefore this quarrel effect on its tourism industry by cancelling the vacation trips had been made by a group of worker’s unions as well as its economic also is disrupt.

As you can see that the media is very powerful. Television is one of the media tools that can reach to a large number of audiences. It can influent and dominate people’s thought and behavior. Children and teenager is the major group of people that could be affected. They tend to spend more and more time watching television or serving an internet. The more time they spend on television, the more influent television has on them. Many children try to behave like the characters they watch in television or in the game they play. The media producer should responsible for what they produce; it should not have a negative effect to their audiences. Besides, they should make sure that it won’t lead to any conflict among parties.

In Thailand, there is a media rating control. This is monitoring by authority of Public Relation. They will rate every program that is going to be on air. For instance, sign 13+ means this program is appropriate for the children aged 13 years old or above as it might have some violence shown in this program. I think this rating control is very important and useful since it helps preventing audience from some inappropriate programs. Moreover, this will directly make producer of those TV program to be more careful and responsible for their show.

Television is a good media used for both entertaining and educating, but we have to consume in a appropriate way and in the right amount of time.

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