Compare the advantages and disadvantages of three of the following as media for communicating information. State which you consider to be the most effective.
comics, books, radio, television, film, theatre
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People deliver messages of what we want to express and absorb knowledge of what we want to know by a variety of media. Books, radio and television, the three most popular instruments for communication, spread different kinds of information by its own speciality respectively.
What are the advantages of the three media? First of all, information presented by words and figures in books can be preserved for a long time. Furthermore, books can be read at any time without worrying the electric power runs out. As for radio, it is the only communicating device which is designed for ears instead of eyes. Thus the greatest benefit of radio is that it's really flexible on listening. No matter what you are doing, cooking or driving, you still can listen to broadcast on the radio at the same time. After its invention, television replaced all the other old media to stand the major position in communicating. Television combines the property of vision and audition to provide all kinds of messages to the public.
On the other hand, how about the disadvantages of these media? Comparing radio and television, the majority of people find books less attractive which are presented in static descriptions. As far as radio is concerned, it will be limited in a specific area and will lose its function once the radio can't receive the sound waves. Although the disadvantages that I mentioned above won't exist virtually on television, the worst problem is that spending too much time on watching TV with little movement will induce nearsightedness and harm our health.
I regard television as the most effective medium for communicating information. The primal reason is that there are various types of messages that...