Shubham Gupta

“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 ... <ending missing -fuzzylogician> The manager states that over the past year, the televison station has concerntrated more on the national news rather the earlier weather and the local news. Now one of the reason given by the manager for justifying the reducion in the number of their viewers can be the change of the focus of the televison channel news to national from the weather and the local news. The manager also suggests that the most of the complaints received from the viewers are concerned with their station's coverage of weather and local news, but it not mentioned anywhere that whether the complaint is in the favour of the increasing the number of the programs concerned with the weather and local news, or wether it is against the content shown on the television regarding the weather and the local news. Therefore it can't be concluded in order to attract the viewers the weather and the local news should be increased. So in order to bring back the viewers the exact complaints stated by the them should be focus then only the type of the complaint. If the real and actual problems faced by the viewers can be understood, they can be easily attracted by bringing in the effective solutions. One more point raised by the manager is that the advertising companies hace just canceled their contracts with the television station and in order to not lose any further contacts the news items related to the weather and the local news should be restored to its former level. Now, it is nowhere mentioned that why the advertising compaines canceled their contracts with the station, the reasons for doing so can be anything, the lack of products to advertised or the need to advertise a particular product to gain publicity, the adversiting company can have many reasons. But as no reason is mentioned it can't be concluded the reason behind the contract cancellation is the national news rather than the local or weather news. As the advertising companies would focus on the time duration of their ads and the visibility of their ads rather than the content or programs running along with the ads, be it national, weather or the local news. So in order to find a proper solution for the problem the reason for the cancellation of the contract should be looked at rather than making the wrong assumption of change in the news content.

“A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.” I don't agree with the statement of having a same national curriculum. Just like every disease has its own type of medicine and not all the diseases can be prevented and cured from a single universal medicine, in the similar manner the different students from different states have different kind of environment, different kind of regional languages and different type of culture. A person who lives in the Northern India might not be able to understand the languages like Tamil, Telgu which are widely used in the Southern part of India, so a common curriculum cannot be practically made which will be comfortable for everyone all over the nation. The environment and culture of a student affects his ways of learning. A person who has a very developed surroundings might be having the high technological aids like laptop, internet, projector and will be easily able to take part in the various activies and will be easily able to understand the meaning of tough topics through visual aids. But a person not having such facilities can't follow and gain from a curriculum which includes the involvement of the technological developments. A student might be able to understand things better in his/her regional languages while a person can might be very comfortable with english, depending upon the cultural differences and the languages used at the home. A North Indian child is more comfortable with hindi or regional language than a South Indian child who has been using english relatively often. One universal curriculum cannot contain the diversity of a huge nation like India where people from different cultural background as well as different financial background look upto having a education system which they are comfortable with, be it in understanding or financially. A poor student cant afford various types school uniforms like regular school uniform, sports uniform, cultural uniform, various types of gadgets like laptops, calculators etc. So an universal curriculum can't be taught or followed in the whole nation. One of the disadvantage that might occur by not following such universal curriculum is that, for getting admission into the national recognized universities which expect a certain kind of skills in a student, e.g, english proficiency, mathematical problem solving etc. would limit a student. As it might occur that in a certain curriculum the english language practises were never encouraged and it might affect the student's chance to be able to get into a good college. Also the different curriculum might have different kind of difficulties in their syllabus and the final percentage in their results might be low, which when compared to the other student's with a easier curriculum is lower and that also can limit a student to be able to utilize the opportunities which is in accordance with their callliber and talent.