Electronic Media & The Information Society...

'The news automaitcally becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitue for reality, but it itself an immediate reality.'
Do we watch the news for information or for entertainment? Do you recieve the reality of the information or the 'reality' of the entertainment?


It can be aruged that with different types of news different things are taken from them, for example with celebirty news and gossip we watch the news for the reality of the entertainment, whereas with news about natural disasters, we watch the news for the reality of the information. In Celbiirty news, there are constant scandalls of celebrities whether they had been charged for assults or just coming out of rehab, that catch viewers attention primarily because as a society we like to see celebrities just like the everyday person. Whereas for other type of news, the news that directly affects society, that is when the viewers take the reality of the entertainment.