Gladstone suggests that the media is an “influencing Machine” throughout her graphic novel through her pictures and examples. Throughout the book she shows examples of how the media creates biases that effect the way they see people, topics, and events. Joseph McCarthy and the red scare was one of the examples that the author used to describe the influence that the media provided. McCarthy used the media to convince the public that there were communists in their government. We can even see the medias effects on us in class when we talk about our current events. With every new release about the presidential candidates, we find ourselves changing our view points. Personally, I see the press as a watchdog. In a society that has proven it can
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In my opinion, the most relevant bias is the “Bad News” bias. This bias is the idea that advertising bad news will bring good business because of our instinct to protect ourselves. Not too long ago America ran into an Ebola scare after citizens brought it back the states after a trip to Africa. Many were worried that it would become an epidemic, it became such an intense fear that a military team of 30 was created to track and treat those who got it. Another bias that I found significant was the “Visual” bias. This bias uses large headlines and photos to get the attention of its onlookers. I had a personal experience with this when I first learned about the Black Lives Matter movement. I knew very little about this movement until Beyoncé did the halftime show in 2016 that protested the police shootings of black men. I found the Gladstone bias to be very interesting in its layout but I personally struggled with the way she wrote the descriptions. The pictures and some of the text was funny while also being educational but when she went into examples, they were often vague. I was surprised by some of her facts about Washington creating political leaks and John Adams’ paranoia that cause the Alien and Sedition Acts. Overall I enjoyed this reading and I would be glad to read more Gladstone’s
In my opinion, the most relevant bias is the “Bad News” bias. This bias is the idea that advertising bad news will bring good business because of our instinct to protect ourselves. Not too long ago America ran into an Ebola scare after citizens brought it back the states after a trip to Africa. Many were worried that it would become an epidemic, it became such an intense fear that a military team of 30 was created to track and treat those who got it. Another bias that I found significant was the “Visual” bias. This bias uses large headlines and photos to get the attention of its onlookers. I had a personal experience with this when I first learned about the Black Lives Matter movement. I knew very little about this movement until Beyoncé did the halftime show in 2016 that protested the police shootings of black men. I found the Gladstone bias to be very interesting in its layout but I personally struggled with the way she wrote the descriptions. The pictures and some of the text was funny while also being educational but when she went into examples, they were often vague. I was surprised by some of her facts about Washington creating political leaks and John Adams’ paranoia that cause the Alien and Sedition Acts. Overall I enjoyed this reading and I would be glad to read more Gladstone’s