Technology In The United States

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Today in the United States, we cannot imagine a world without technology. Technology drives our nation forward and it makes our nation one of the most influential and powerful in the world. Technology helped revolutionize our nation, but with this advancement of technologies in our nation human curiosity came into play more than ever. Humans began finding ways to communicate with loved one's faster, and in ways their ancestors would have never imagined, but just as communication expanded so did the news system. Humans began receiving news almost instantly and as it happened. News of the day revolutionized the world, you did not have to wait weeks to hear about an event that happened across the country because it could all be transmitted instantly. …show more content…
My cellular device allows me to download applications like twitter, facebook or instagram to stay updated on current political events. My personal favorite application for political news is Twitter. Twitter has moments on the application that have tabs for news, these twitter moments keep you up to date on a current political events, most of the stuff that I see on this part of the application is very relevant to me due to the fact that Twitter personalizes moments to the area that you are living in, so i get nationwide news but I also get news that is personalized to my city or state. Neil Postman attempts to make the argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death that “ Cultures without speed-of-light media let us say, cultures in which smoke signals are the most efficient space conquering tool available do not have news of the day. Without a medium to create its form, the news of the day does not exist.”(8). However, just how I receive my news of the day through my preferred source of media, the cultures who …show more content…
The purpose of the news now is to please their viewers. For example Fox News is known to be highly conservative, so Fox News will try to appeal to its conservative viewers by spreading out biased information, in order to keep its viewers happy and blinded to the truth. Neil Postman articulates from Amusing Ourselves to Death that “ The news is a figment of our technological imagination”(8) What Postman was trying to articulate was that the news is a bad source for news of the day because they tell us what ever they want, which is where the biased part comes in. News outlets like Fox tell us their biased opinion instead of the whole truth. However even with this major flaw that these news system have they are the best medium for reporting on live events or disasters. For example the news outlet cannot be biased when reporting on a disaster because the news outlet is their to inform you on the

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