The best selling UK newspapers occasionally touch on serious issues in their cover stories mostly relating to climate change. However cover stories for the best selling articles have to grab the audience’s attention, otherwise they wouldn’t be bought. This means that even if the story is related to serious issues such as climate change, sustainability, or political policies they could have a spin on them to sound more interesting.
I think that serious issues should be in the media all of the time, it is their duty to inform the public of serious issues as well as trivial issues. Although I think that serious issues should be involved in the media I also think that they should be truthful. Issues such as global warming should be in the media but we do not know what is causing it or how to solve it or even if we should attempt to solve something that we do not even know if it’s a problem. This causes a problem with what to write about, how do we write about something that we know nothing about? Well as we have seen from most newspapers thy usually fill in the blanks with their own opinions.
As well as newspapers serious issues can be brought into the media with television programmes. The most watched television programmes on ITV are x factor, coronation street and Emmerdale. Very occasionally do these programmes touch on serious issues but then again why should they? These programmes are purely for entertainment, with newspapers the public go out of their way to read up and become educated on the news where as these programmes are watched for entertainment. Although it is a duty of the media to serious issues we do not wish to be bombarded with them. Sometimes this programmes let us forget about such issues.
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