Television as a “Powerful Weapon”

Abstract

Television influences viewers through the coherence of its broadcasts, which, despite their genre and thematic diversity, form a certain unity. Despite the growing prominence of social media, television has not lost its relevance and still remains one of the main “weapons.” Sometimes it happens that a piece of news first aired on television later becomes part of the news agenda of various information agencies. Therefore, we can conclude that even representatives of social media closely monitor the news delivered by television newsrooms. The opposite can also occur: television representatives do not waste time verifying information disseminated by different online media before airing it.

We believe that viewers need to know who stands behind each television channel so that they can be assured of the truthfulness, impartiality, and reliability of the information presented in the news. Indeed, television can be used by individuals, organizations, businesses, or politicians for their own public relations purposes, to solve very important problems to their advantage, should they arise in the course of their activities, and thereby harm other people. Television can truly be used as a “powerful weapon” to achieve illegal goals.