Thursday, January 29, 2009

Trust to Mass Media

Today a news story caught my eyeballs, in which it threw out a report that revealed high levels of trust in the media facilitated the success of mass media health campaigns, which in turn had a positive influence on people's health. Sounds a little bit "take-for-granted" huh?

Let's read on. The report says Maldivians are the healthiest in Asia because of their trust in the mass media and its health campaigns. Well, Maldives is a far-off country that has nothing to do with us, skip it.

And here comes the most important part, the report notes people living in Hong Kong has the lowest level of trust in the mass media. What about China? The report fails to mention.

Based on general knowledge, you will not shed an optimistic light on the levels of trust in the mass media in China as it would just go even worse than HK. So is this reasonable guesswork indicative of we, as a nation, has the poorest health in Asia?

Food for thought, politicians! Go home and give it a big thought on why you are not as believable and trustworthy as those from Maldives.

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