You will find three questions in relation to the topic of news. Answer the questions into a paragraph format
1. 1. Are the news in your country sensationalist? What about the newspapers? Give examples and explain your reasons.
2. 2. Why do you think that the news have to be sensationalists?
3. 3. Do you consider that people prefer or not the sensationalists’ news?
In my country there is only 1 newspaper very sensationalist. I think “EXTRA” is sensationalist because these newspapers always show photographs of people dead and some things very striking. e.g: When Dennis Marshall died in a traffic accident, the newspapers show some images of his body and her girlfriend, the images were very striking. In Costa Rica most people think the “EXTRA” is very sensationalist and it´s one of the best seller.
ResponderEliminarSome newspapers are very sensationalist because with the sensationalism, they want to sell more products.Many people like the sensationalism into the newspapers because they like to look images sensationalist. I think some people love the sensationalism.
Sensationalism is a exaggerated way to transmit the controversy and call much attention, in many cases the sensationalist media publishes false or shocking information of any event. Nowadays is on television that gives great importance to the lives of famous people or the news that have bloody and grotesque images on front pages and there are also cases showing pictures of seminude women, clear examples in the country are journal EXTRA and Intrusos de la Farándula. I think the only objectives of sensationalistic media are get big sales.
ResponderEliminarThe sensationalism causes a lot of attention, people are interested in this controversial information and a picture speaks a thousand words and all goes trough the eyes of the people.
I think this information must be ignored by people, should be a kind of censure to ensure the observation of them only with the consent of the reader and protect human dignity.
Here in Costa Rica there is only one newspaper very sensationalist, “Extra”, this newspaper have been showing images very crude, they don’t care about what they are publishing, because, it seem to “Extra” that it’s the only way to sell their newspapers, we all remember when a great soccer player like Dennis Marshall die in route 32, and they published a photo of the crash, people clearly saw the corpse and the mouth full of blood, this is a fault of respect to the members of the family and for the memory of the soccer player.
ResponderEliminarIf I remember well there is an ethic code for the investigation journalist, they have to respect many articles, they can’t publish false information, they cant bribe someone for information and a lot more of examples, but its only ethic, not legal, but many journalists have studied the articles and they respect them.
About people, when “Extra” publishes the Dennis Marshall photo, people may bought the newspaper for a few days, but after that, their popularity went down, and became an underestimated and criticized newspaper.
Well sensationalism in Costa Rica is only given in the paper "Extra" and sometimes in RTN news and Channel 42. Maybe TV does having more hearing and newspapers because people pay to see the sensationalism. For example 3 months ago when a student died in Orotina the newspaper "Extra" showed the body on the desk. Sensationalism is because the newspaper and news want to have more production and money. People do not like the sensationalism because it is disrespectful to the family and it is wrong. I think people who accept the sensationalism should be aware and realize that sensationalism is cruel and does not go with the principles and human dignity.
ResponderEliminarUnfortunately yes, here exist some news sensationalist, but the most common is the newspaper because don’t mind being sensationalist in order to sell more and more. An example of that could be the newspaper named “Extra” or the program called RTN news because sometimes they show cruel pictures. An example is when the Extra showed in the cover the picture of the death of Marshall, I think that’s sensationalist because don’t respect the grief of the family, only care about selling.
ResponderEliminarI think that news shouldn't be sensationalists… but some are sensationalists because they want to improve sales.
I consider that people prefer news not sensationalists because they are aware that are people who are presenting
Definitely sensationalists news have to be removed and people should support the idea.
The sensationalist unfortunately occurs in Costa Rica especially in the case of newspapers in particular one called Extra which always shows very unpleasant images that convey the news with intent to sell more newspapers such as an article in which he said: child dies playing with gunshot in head; in the newspaper showed the bloody images of children died from the gun shot.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion I think the news is so sensationalist because they do only with economic interests and don’t think about the pain of the families of the victims, I believe that people prefer not to see those images so unpleasant in the news. The newspapers and the news should put more effort into the information conveyed in exchange for the bloody images that show
In my country and the vast majority of countries there is sensationalism in newspapers and on the news.
ResponderEliminarFor example, in Costa Rica there is a newspaper called the extra, they do not care about the feelings towards putting family photos of those killed and to disregard ethics and values that society has taught us.
To me they are busy selling sensationalist but because they should find another way to sell.
Many people like sensationalism because maybe they see a way to have fun or maybe distracted, also like to criticize and do nothing to solve this problem affecting our society.
We should start changing ourselves.
I think that in Costa Rica, although should be ethics from the journalist many of them don´t use it… Because, for example in many newspapers like “La Teja” or “La Extra” appear images very crude or hard to see them, if a car crash happens, the face book of the newspaper has the pictures of the people, they don´t care about if they are bleeding, crying, or if they lose a hand… the images of the accident have to appear anyway… Also I think that many others use the image of a woman like a sexual object, because many women appear there in underwear showing too much. I don´t think that a newspaper has to be sensationalist, I think that the journalist who write and edit the news have to limit to give us the truth, and they don´t have to invent news or make them bigger. Also I think that Costa Rica is a small country, the “renamed” people don´t exist or are few persons, so the sensationalism has to have a destructive connotation to be successful. I think that many people, like me, hate the news with extra information which we don´t ask for, or awful images… But there are many drama kings and queens that enjoy see and read that kind of news…
ResponderEliminarJulian Granados Barquero 10-7 18/10/2011
In Costa Rica some news papers are not sensationalist like La Nacion, Al Dia and the Tico Times. But some news papers like La Extra and La Teja have many sensationalist stories to catch the reader’s attention. For example, one time they took a picture of a woman whose face hit an electricity pole when she put her head out the window while she was driving.
ResponderEliminarThe owners instruct the writers to make the news more sensationalist to catch the reader’s attention so that they can sell more news papers.
Well in my case, I prefer non sensationalist news because it doesn’t catch my attention, but some people in Costa Rica definitely prefer sensationalist news.
Alex Connell
Sensationalism is a way of drawing the attention of people. In my country there are TV shows such as INTRUSOS DE LA FARANDULA, or the clearest example the LA EXTRA, trying to succeed with scantily clad women too grotesque or photographs, which can damage the image of someone or hurt a family member, since photos are bloody when someone dies.
ResponderEliminarIt is clear that only want sensational news of the great sales they make, and that causes more people to General Interest in these, and today it seems that everything is sold for what is seen.
In my opinion is disrespectful images of nearly naked women, only to green the newspaper, or on that show women to show parts of your body to achieve to be seen by viewers.
I think that people should not pay attention to such news, assert the dignity of people and not giving importance to news that damage the image of several people.
laura zelaya villegas/ 10-7.
Newspapers like “La Extra” in Costa Rica are sensationalism. They do everything to sell a new. Even when that means showing a dead body in a front page to make it more interesting, ignoring without a feeling the pain of the relatives of that person. Or sometimes they just put a crazy and exaggerated title to make it like “funny”. In my opinion the news have to have a limit in the way they report a new. It has to be sensationalism in the way that they need the new to be complete and well write to have an audience. But they also have to respect some things including who reads the news paper and who is the new. I think people prefer something equal that is not to boring but either sensationalism.
ResponderEliminarIn the t.v the news sometimes is alarming building up the reality, everything is exaggerated and sometimes don´t present the full truth.
ResponderEliminarThe newspapers like: "EXTRA" or "DIARIO" always are very negative in their topic and present the pictures of accidents or death scenes very dramatic. I think this is very irrespectful for the public and for the people who are victims of violance.
It is to call attention to the people watching news and to gain popularity and rafting for this t.v channel or radio station or newspaper since there is so much competion nowadays in the media.
I think some people prefer the sensationalistic news for entertainment, some like to watch the violent happenings like: killings, robbing, assaults and kidnapping and the other hand, others get too distressed at watching so much violence and I include myself, because I don´t really like watching the news since there is so much violence.
In Costa Rica most of the newspapers are sensationalist; because all they want is to sell the news no matter how cruel they are like the "la extra" is a newspaper that shows how extremely people die without any caution showing gory images, it is also the newspaper "la teja" they are only looking to sell pictures of underwear models and does not sell news really important and productive to society the only thing that is simply looking to sell and make money without give anything important information to society. I think what society needs is news to report about what really happens in our country and the world, and that somehow helps us to prevent and be aware of the situations that are living such as insecurity, conflict politic,etc .. in general, the news needs report important information, and they are not just looking to sell, they are looking to inform the society, they are only looking to sell a product that most of people want, instead inform important things to the society.
ResponderEliminarthe people want to see the blood, violence, see killed people and models ..
I think that society wants to see sensationalist news because that's what they like to see and that's what sells newspapers.
Here in Costa Rica all the news are sensationalists, but the “Extra” newspaper it’s the most sensationalist news in Costa Rica because they write in the front page with big and red letters titles that are striking and publish photos that are also striking, for example when the soccer player Dennis Marshall died in a car accident they put photos of him with the disfigured face. The news has to be sensationalists because that kind of news attracts people to buy newspapers and this generates more money for the companies although the news are ugly and striking and the kids could seen this. I think that the most of people prefer the sensationalist news because they like this type of news, but there are other people who don’t think the same and didn’t like this type of news but the sensationalism has to disappear because doesn’t solve the problems of our society, it makes them bigger.
ResponderEliminarIn Costa Rica there is only one truly sensationalist newspaper this is ‘’extra’’. in this newspaper show very shocking and bloody images that impress all Costa Ricans for their way of giving the news ... I think that this way of doing the news is bad because they often don’t respect the integrity of individuals or their families they always show people dead and don’t feel anything published. but in some ways is a good technique to attract the public to watch the news and informed of what's happening in the country or the world. Many people don’t like this way of presenting the news because they have the barefaced to put this kind of violent images on it while others like of it because they think that its very interesting.
ResponderEliminarYes in my country there is a newspaper sensationalist the “Extra” this is a stupid newspaper published raw news, like people died and show images like a person with a headshot this is not right!!!Imagine you open the newspaper and you find a picture of your father dead with the raw image, you gotta be kidding me right!!!!!!
ResponderEliminarThe news papers have to be sensationalist because with that the companies sell more , but i think the newspapers have to be a Little sensationalist for be a good newspaper but not extremely like “Extra”.
In this country the people prefer bloody news… instead of ordinal news…
In Costa Rica, newspapers like “La Extra” shows a lot of violent pictures of dead people and other shocking images, and they don´t care about the families of the victims or sometimes have pictures of models with underwear. These kinds of images make people buy the newspaper and this cause that the company makes a lot of money. I think that the people should be informed with news more productive and know what´s really happening in Costa Rica and the world. The “ticos” want violence in the news but a little bit, not like La Extra
ResponderEliminar“LA EXTRA” is very sensationalist because this newspaper use a too crude photos or images that the families of the affected will consider it inappropiate to publish, other sensationalist newspaper is “LA TEJA” because everyday this newspaper has models in bikini and every friday has a poster with a little description of these models.
ResponderEliminarThe news has to be sensationalist because they have competition with another news reports, magazines or newspapers.
I think that the people don’t prefer sensationalist news because these news are ugly to the readers because they don’t like the photos with too much blood, or people dead in tragic accidents.
Well, in every country there is sensationalist news, but is most common to see the sensationalist news in the newspapers, because with this type of news they will get more buyers .I think that the people that published this sensationalist news are very insensitive because they don´t think in the pain that they are causing to the people who knows the person that were in the news or in the photos .A clear example of this sensationalist was when a student of high school killed other student because a publication that he saw in facebook, he killed his friend in class by a gun and after that he took his life by the same way; when that notice occurred the journal “EXTRA” ,published very shocking photos of the both students dead in the chair in its class (photos taken a few hours after the death of the two boys) of course this photos where very sensationalist. I think that's disrespectful to the family of the person or persons involved or mentioned in this kind of news. But they are doing their work and they have to look for the best way for them to do successfully their work , for me there are others ways that they can use to attract more buyers of their newspaper but perhaps the people buy this kind of sensationalist newspaper because they don´t know other types of news and the journalists don´t know other ways to call people's attention. Finally I think that the vast majority likes this sensationalist news because in some way are interesting to the readers.
ResponderEliminarANA MARIA CARRILLO 10-7
Of course the Costa Rican society is bombarded daily by "yellow journalism", only needs to observe the national television and become aware of how events are detailed, distressing and representative of a hard future for those who suffer; they are so cruel that many times they dare to ask a mother the painful reality, of an obvious death, if she believes that after knowing that his son has been missing for several days in the sea, believe he is still alive; and what did you do when you saw your house on fire? In all the news programs announce and proclaim the death of ... and what they present is the image of a dead body dragged through the streets of his country…
ResponderEliminarBut something worse happens in the case of newspapers, Headlines are the hook for purchase, the more cruel and powerful they are, many more people fall into the trap of sensationalism, and the worst of this is that it seems to most ticos like this, which is the bestselling newspaper in the metropolitan area? “Diario la Extra” a 100% sensationalist newspaper. For example: Paramedic dies on the day of his wife's birthday… which is the idea? Cause the feeling of pain and that people will buy it to read how she felt when she heard the news, if her photograph is there crying, and read the absurd questions put to her at such an inopportune moment.
In my country are not very sensational news but there is a newspaper that if it is in my opinion is the extra because it is a newspaper that publishes very bloody images for example when Dennis Marshall dies in a traffic accident, that newspaper showed images so striking with the body of him and her girlfriend dead, I think that the news has to be sensationalist because for them it is a very easy to attract the attention of people in addition to the media love to cause controversy in this way make it easier I think it depends on the person because some people do not care whether or not sensationalist, but in my opinion I prefer it not too much sensationalist.
ResponderEliminarI think that in the TV news we don´t have that problem, but the problem is in the write news in: “La Extra” and “La Teja”. The journal only wants to transmit the controversy and to call all the attention of the country, because they put some rude pictures with blood or a woman seminude in the front of the newspaper, but that is only to call the attention. Extra put sensationalist thinks because they think that are going to have more production and that is true but that is not the way to make money. An example of this is when La Extra put the news of the die of Dennis Marshall, they put the face of Marshall with a lot of blood and always write the titles with big reds letters. Some people don´t like that pictures and don´t like that news. In my case and in my house we like more journals like “Al Dia” or “La Nacion”, that don´t put that kind of pictures.
ResponderEliminarIn Costa Rica we have a variety of newspaper. The most popular are: La Nacion, Al Día, La Extra y La Teja. People use to buy newspaper everyday because they like to stay informed. Sometimes newspaper are sensationalist when they show the sad or violent part of the new. In Costa Rica we have 2 newspaper that are a lot of sensationalist they are La Extra and La Teja. They are always showing sensationalist news, always are presenting sad and bloddy news. For example in La Extra when someone get kill, or hurt, they always present a sad or bloddy picture. It’s dissapointing to see that pictures in the title page.
ResponderEliminarEveryone understands that sometimes the news have to be sensationalist to inform the people whats going on around th country. But sometimes newspaper exceed and thats not good. I think that sensationalists news are interesting but not everyday , people like to see news that doesn’t present blood or sad situations.
Sometimes we can see in different newspapers news with some sensationalist pictures, but here in costa rica we have one newspaper that always put a lot of sensationalist news; this newspaper is the Extra, this newspaper always shows us a lot of sensasionalist news with disgusting pictures. I think that the news have to be a little sensasionalist because they need to capture the attention of the views and the people are interested in always know all the details about the news and see all things! But I think that is not necesary to put sensasionalist new because this goes against human moralty and make that the family of the person feel bad about it. I think that people usually prefer sensasionalist news, but it is really bad, and people dont have to put it in the newspapers and we dont have to see it!
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion Costa Rica´s news are sensationalist, because is the way to be extremely controversial and will draw much attention. An example of a newspaper sensationalist is “Diario Extra” that is known for publishing articles of violence, accidents, assaults and provocative women.
ResponderEliminarI think that the media in our country and world in general should be somewhat sensationalistic because they have to offer variety to the public. Since everyone has different tastes like those who like politics, economy, events, gossip, national and international events. The sensationalist media disseminating information are characterized by controversial, shocking or draws much attention.
People want sensational stories that have real consequences, the problem is when the sensationalist side of the story, the side of the story that sells the most subscriptions and attracts the most viewers, comes to dominate the practical side. The public opinion is increasingly based on ‘feeling’. Sensation, in the form of passion, ideological zeal, or another motivating force, yet sensationalism is a domain dominated by excess emotion and misguided priorities.
Well about the sensationalism in our country, we can say that there are some newspapers that publish news with sensationalism. A newspaper that has sensationalism is “La Extra” sometimes “La Teja” but most of the sensationalist news is from “La Extra”. For example, when Dennis Marshall died in a car accident, about two months ago, “La Extra” published a photo of Dennis where he was bleeding, with his face destroyed by the accident; it was a terrible and an unconscious photo, because they were violating Marshall’s dignity and disrespectful for Marshall’s relatives. So, I don’t agree with the sensationalist’s news because there isn’t respectful news because the newspaper shows the happening as it is, and that is the thing that isn’t right because the newspapermen don’t have the liberty to expose that type of information. I think that people don’t want to see that type of news in their newspaper, because the information, the pictures, the videos are disgusting and there are lots of children that read the newspaper and they wouldn’t be comfortable seeing these news, they could get scared about the content of the articles... so, I think that most of the people are disagree wuth the sensationalism.
ResponderEliminarJosue Molina Salas 10/7
10/21/2011 7:09:55 PM
Yes, here in Costa Rica are sensationalists newspapers like La Extra, La Teja. They are sensationalists because the photos that they put shows bodies cover of blood and things like that.
ResponderEliminarThey have to be sensasionalists because with that they are going to attract more people, I mean the people is going to be more interest in that newspaper than in one that doesn’t do that. But I think that is not true because, well at least I wouldn’t buy a newspaper that shows all of that.
I’m not sure. But it has to be people that likes it because that newspapers keeps doing that.
In Costa Rica in my opinion we can found one news paper very sensationalist. The “Diario Extra” is the most sensationalist newspaper that I have read because this newspaper just looks for news about accidents and polemic news because they do everything to sell a new. For example when there is an accident, this newspaper shows explicit images about the people who died or images with a lot of blood.
ResponderEliminarI don’t think that news have to be sensationalist but I think that the newspaper just look for this kind of news because they know that most people like the explicit and sensationalistic news because are people who just want to see unusual things.
I think that people should not pay attention to such news but also I think some people like the sensationalistic news for entertainment or just because they like the violence and the explicit images of some accident.
In my country they are one newspaper very sensationalist and is LA EXTRA. This newspaper is very impressive when showing images of dead people, and these are in poor condition. For example, when they kill a person, show your face and what they did to that person.
ResponderEliminarBecause with this fail to capture the attention of people who read newspapers and is very sadly see this.
I think people who like to read these newspapers are uneducated because a person with a little knowledge would not read newspapers such as demean people.
In our country some of the news are sensationalist, but they are the minority. The most sensationalist newspaper is ¨DIARIO EXTRA¨, it’s sensationalist because it contains very shocking images to illustrate the news, for example, one day at a news showed a beheaded body of a massacre in Mexico, and they just do not care about if that will be seen by childrens.
ResponderEliminarA newspaper has to be sensationalist simply to sell more and more copies; also they sell much more because in the back of the newspaper there are semi naked womens.
Most of the people not prefer sensationalists’ news, but there are some people (the minority) that like the sensationalism news. I do not understand and it’s impressive that there are people who buy this atrocities.
Jeffrey David Simpson Peñaranda.
here in costa rica there almost no sensationalist news, the newspaper ¨la extra¨are sensationalist and make alot of controversy because the pictures that they use show people bleeding and that is disgusting, and its no good because anyone can seen that images.
ResponderEliminarthe news do not have to be sensationalist, is not necesary show all the raw images to sell only wiht good news is enough. i think that the most people not prefer the sensationalist news i think that people enjoy more the normal and good news. in my personal opinion they make sensationalist news because they cant do a better things.
jonathan canizales
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