Week 5 Task:

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.