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. During the labor day bombing trial the reporter hears the attorney say something to the jury. He says “Don’t let… Time [Magazine] tell you what to do in this case.” This shows how the media can persuade people and this made the jury lessen the sentence for the two men. Also in a photograph a large group of white people with flags and signs against integration. In the caption of the
