Who owns the newspapers and TV
stations in your country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you
hear?
I
am from Saudi Arabia and in my country plenty of newspaper and TV stations, the
newspaper are all commercial companies, but some of the TV stations are owned
by the government, and the rest are commercial companies, so first I would talk
about the TV stations as they have the most effect on people in my country, the
ones that my government owned usually they don’t have that appeal that would
capture you, in fact most of my country’s people don’t watch these stations,
and these channel don’t give that much of information because their freedom is
limited, there is a line they can’t cross it, on the other hand the TV stations
that owned by commercial companies, have the highest number of watchers, due to
the way they chose their programs, they usually trying to please the audience
by showing them whatever they want, so now these stations when they show
something new, most of the audience will accept that show even if that show is
out of our culture, and that what is happening in my country these days, even
sometimes the show some shows which completely against our religion and still
made the people to accept these shows, they usually got attacked from the
audience at the begging but with repeating the same program or show, the people
will start to accept it.
