"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this time period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have just canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to the program and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should restore the time devoted to weather and local news to its former level.
The argument puts in question the ethical issues concerned with media. In the free world, media has a very crucial role to play. An unbiased and critical media is as good as a strong opposition party in a democracy. However, media is self funded in any uncorrupted economy and sustains itself through advertisements and television TRP ratings. This makes the argument, of whether a new channel should alter its content based on profitability of the news it displays, valid and important.
The news channel in discussion here shifted focus from weather and local news to national news. This must hav...
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Sentence: Until a decade back, there were only 3 or 4 news channels, and due to the derth in competiton, they bourgeoned, made profits and delievered sensible news.
Error: derth Suggestion: death
Error: delievered Suggestion: delivered
Error: competiton Suggestion: competition
Sentence: However, with the advent of time, a dozen news channel came up, and the profitabilty of news channels became largely dependent on their TRPs.
Error: profitabilty Suggestion: profitability
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