The cartoon by “A. Bacali” truly makes you think of the media as a whole. In the cartoon it is stated “Typical media bias. First they label the wolf ‘the big BAD wolf’ then only give little Red Riding Hood’s point of view.” All media outlets are made up of people with their own line of thought. The woman in the comic is explaining how she believes the media isn't telling the full story of little red riding hood. The woman also makes it a point to inform the child that you do not get the story from the perspective of the wolf, so you don't exactly know what facts are missing that could be crucial to the story. In an always connected society we take the information given to us by the media as fact. That line of thought needs to be challenged.
Every night millions tune in their televisions to either the local or national news. Stories are constantly being shared and often from only one point of view. People all across America decide to accept these news articles as fact because of the trust they have in media outlets, but every station that delivers news is looking for good ratings.
Stations could put a spin on whatever topic that is being discussed. In some …show more content…
According to the Congressional Budget Office report on The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income, increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour will only reduce the number of people in poverty by 900,000, a relatively few portion of the 16.5 million people that would supposedly benefit from the raise. This is because of the number of minimum wage workers, relatively few are actually in poverty, and of families who live in poverty, only about 7 percent have a full-time worker in the family meaning poverty is not because people are not being paid enough, it is because they are not working or not working enough.
Every night millions tune in their televisions to either the local or national news. Stories are constantly being shared and often from only one point of view. People all across America decide to accept these news articles as fact because of the trust they have in media outlets, but every station that delivers news is looking for good ratings.
Stations could put a spin on whatever topic that is being discussed. In some …show more content…
According to the Congressional Budget Office report on The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income, increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour will only reduce the number of people in poverty by 900,000, a relatively few portion of the 16.5 million people that would supposedly benefit from the raise. This is because of the number of minimum wage workers, relatively few are actually in poverty, and of families who live in poverty, only about 7 percent have a full-time worker in the family meaning poverty is not because people are not being paid enough, it is because they are not working or not working enough.