Ray Nagin's Essay Words Triumph Over Images

Decent Essays
I am writing to applaud you regarding your article “Words Triumph Over Images”. So many people today go straight to the tv to get their news and current events. We live in a world where we believe everything we see on tv, even though the stories are often not true and provide a shock factor. Tv can be much more entertaining than reading it in the newspaper or hearing it on the radio, however many tv stations and journalists just want people to watch so they will say things that get the attention of the viewers many times without checking out the sources.

You referenced how Mayor C. Ray Nagin said that “most likely, thousands of bodies would be discovered amid the carnage”. This was a prediction that no one should make. Although the aftermath

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    Perception vs. Reality Rough Draft Sometimes in life, our memory can be influenced by the emotions we were having at that said time. We can perceive past events differently based on our feelings at the time. Whereas in reality the events may be different. For Hagar Shipley, her stubborn, and prideful attitude has had a detrimental effect on how she remembers her past life events and is why she regularly turns a blind eye toward the truth. The characters of Marvin, John, and her father Jason Currie are all exemplifications of how Hagar’s perception of them isn’t the reality…

    • 1593 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Jeffery Sachs "A Nation of Vidiots" he frequently uses logos and ethos in his story, by explaining that the Television has changed the world in many ways, and as Americans we have taken it to a new level. Trying to reach the average American, Sachs explains in is story that in comparison to other countries the American people spend several hours watching Television. He uses examples like percentages from the 1950's and 1960's and compare it to this day an age. Reaching his readers that Television has become an addiction to us. Sachs context is social and some political, although most Americans admit they watch more than they should.…

    • 1194 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    From the beginning of time, human civilization has fed upon the circulating world of obtaining, assembling, and broadcasting information upon a wide-spread scale. With sources ranging from the earliest form of publicized word to the current reality of active pictures and dramatic screenplay, society has been infused with an environment of news broadcast. Unfortunately, since the creation of television journalism, the overall goal has shifted from knowledgeable reports to pure entertainment. A platform once used to inform the audience of significant and impacting events has transformed into a network’s obsession with maintaining the audience’s interest. The target is not to keep the public well-informed, but rather to play upon America’s ever-shortening attention spans…

    • 1782 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In his editorial "Words Triumph Over Images," Curtis Wilkie describes the TV coverage of Hurricane Katrina as "unfiltered" and "reckless." He argues that print news journalists did a much better job covering the event than TV or radio news reporters, and for this reason he claims that print news is superior to other kinds of coverage. However, any type of news media could be characterized as either reckless or responsible, depending on how poorly or how well journalists use content, time, and resources to craft their news stories. The TV reporters who were live on the scene in New Orleans were faced with the challenges of time, access to information, and their own overwhelming emotions.…

    • 364 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Article, “Truth Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” by Farhad Manjoo argues that we live in an era of selective perception. We as viewers expect for all information on the news to be beneficial towards us and trustworthy. Yet, news publications can be tainted, similar to all types of media. Manjoo explains the concept of Video News Releases, which is a short clip of marketing propaganda disguised as a real news due to its language and style. In fact, each of these news segments are produced by marketing experts, rather than a journalist.…

    • 636 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Towns also states how media can become a bad influence in certain situations. In the article he states that people on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and youtube people made mems out of Eric Garners death which means people took it as a joke. Camera is used throughout the article…

    • 1760 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many journalists believe that “emotional power can be harnessed” through visual media. One real-life journalist believes that television news has the power of “connect[ing] with the viewer’s heart” through storytelling. This charismatic, heroic image of the journalist is often portrayed in popular culture: a visual media that promotes accuracy and fairness while championing conscientiousness. But popular culture also reveals an unflattering side of visual media that can abuse its power to fabricate, trivialize, dehumanize, and seek profit.…

    • 1026 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The local media provided viewers upfront seats to the damage that was being caused in Los Angeles. The local media as well, forced through their footage the concept that a…

    • 960 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Post-Industrial Revolution

    • 1402 Words
    • 6 Pages

    A Tale of Two Societies “In order for someone to be transported into the future and die from the level of shock they’d experience, they have to go enough years ahead that a “die level of progress,” or a Die Progress Unit (DPU) has been achieved. The post-Industrial Revolution world has moved so quickly that a 1750 person only needs to go forward a couple hundred years for a DPU to have happened”(Urban). Over the course of history, society has been continuously evolving rapidly. Every year, high-tech devices and gadgets are developed and sold to millions of people around the world.…

    • 1402 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Social media is our main source of getting news around in today's society. However during the Civil Rights Movement social media wasn’t around to get news around. So the media has illuminated events happening in Little Rock but, often doing so inaccurately or incompletely. The media uses newspaper, pictures, and magazines to illuminate events that are happening.…

    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Social Safety Scandal

    • 159 Words
    • 1 Pages

    To be clear, the forthcoming recollection of events that transpired that night are from my perspective and do not reflect the opinion of anyone else, unless otherwise noted. I am not attempting to advocate a particular political platform…

    • 159 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Many individuals in the United States believe that we live in a post-racial world and that racism and discrimination are part of the past. They believe that everyone coexists in a world where segregation and inequalities no longer exist based on race (Dyer 2004). This, I don’t consider it to be true. Currently, many inequalities based on race are still present and a minority of the population in this case, rich white men, still control many aspects of life such as politics, education, and the media. In this essay, I will specifically focus on how the media is still in the hands of white rich men causing the media to lack diversity.…

    • 1450 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Representations of politics often reveal the worst of human nature, however, intentional use of the media can trigger a reaction from the audience that shows the best of human nature and a call for change within society. Wag the dog (Barry Levinson 1997) and Beware (Leunig 2003), both highlight the conflict between politics and reality. This conflict is shown through literal and visual techniques, context and perspective. Both wag the dog and beware are written with a context of war, public manipulation and individuals being lost in a sea of consumerism. Politics and the public’s reality is separated by many factors including propaganda, distraction, concealment and privileged perspectives.…

    • 1214 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gladiator Film Analysis

    • 1096 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Artistic expressions, such as film, have the capacity to influence the perception of both our past and present. Mass media has been constantly validating how powerful ideas are. There is just a great amount of authority gained just by having something presented in the channels of media. All that it takes is a powerful production. The art form of illustration and film is effective in three things.…

    • 1096 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The study “Newspaper Coverage of the Niger Delta Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Government and Privately Owned Newspapers in Nigeria” was motivated by the need to check crises in the country as well as proffer solution to resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta region especially as the crisis had taken a rather horrendous dimension in recent years. The media have been said to be at the fore front of the crisis, either escalating or helping to resolve the crisis. The purpose of the study was to find out whether government and privately owned newspapers in Nigeria represented by The Pointer, The Nigerian Observer, The Punch and The Guardian newspapers had given significant coverage to the Niger Delta crisis between January 2006 and December…

    • 4827 Words
    • 20 Pages
    Great Essays