题目：

Do the negative effects of some international media such as TV and magazinefor example overweigh the positive effects?托福跟雅思的区别

范文：

International media such as TV network and magazine always gives people inan information age mixed feelings. Like many other things, media isdouble-edged.

As primary channels of information, TV and magazine are convenient andeconomic sources of information for knowledge, entertainment, and shopping.Interestingly, sometimes the same piece of information varies considerably inits influences on audiences of different age. For example, in a TV commercial, abeautiful lady promotes a certain brand of perfume, which supposablely makesgirls more attractive to boys. For potential grownup buyers, the ad is usefulbecause they might be spending time searching for such products. We save time inshopping and making decision by making use of such advertisements. However, ateenage girl might get the wrong idea about the concept of perfume. She couldget money from her parents to buy the advertised product. Worse yet, she mightuse the sex appeal strategy employed in the commercial to get ahead in thefuture. This is classic bad influence of media for young people’s overspendingand inappropriate behaviors.

However, we find it very difficult to weight between merits and problems ofmedia because they are often closely incorporated. For instance, violent scenesin movies are believed to be partially responsible for violence-related crimes,particularly those committed by young people. But on the contrary, such moviesalso give people a channel to release their anger, anxiety, and pressure.Moreover, these movies show us bad and evil as well as punishments forwrongdoings. Imagine we live in a world whose media is completely clean in suchsense. The dark side of media does not disappear just because we do not talkabout it. Nevertheless certain kinds of information such as porn are better keptaway from young people.

In conclusion, media should not be seen simply as bad or good because weneed to use information properly to the best of our ability. But for certainsegments of viewers, we should be very careful with regard to the content ofinformation and take measures to keep viewers from possible harmful influencesof media.