In the book, The Assault on Reason by Al Gore, the first chapter; “Introduction” is an excellent chapter that explains today’s America. Gore’s main point is how news media has changed with time, from the type of information it contains to the way it is spread to civilians. Also by the ways that government uses media as advertainment to win their elections. He also talks about the Founding Fathers plan to have a democratic country and having freedom of speech.
Gore mainly argues about how media has changed throughout the time. He argues by using Mills’ Method of Agreement on most of his arguments. “According to an authoritative global study, Americans now watch television an average of four hours and thirty-five minutes every day- ninety …show more content…
Thus, they not only protect freedom of assembly as a basic right, they made a special point- in the First Amendment- of protecting the printing press.” (5) The Founder Fathers wanted a representative democracy like the one that the Romans and the ancient Greeks had. A democracy where people had a chance to choose their laws and they had the right of a total freedom of speech. As television being the new way of news media people don’t have the right to say something or the corporations do not hear their opinions. As with printing press, people had the opportunity to be heard. Plus, the most important thing was that the government was about brightness and not money. Furthermore, Gore explains it better when he said “Our Founding Fathers understood this better than any others; they realized that a ‘well-informed citizenry” could govern itself and secure liberty for individuals by substituting reason for brute force. They decisively rejected the three-thousand-year-old superstitious belief in the divine right of kings to rule absolutely and arbitrarily. They reawakened the ancient Greek and Roman Traditions of debating the wisest courses of action by exchanging information and opinion in new ways.” (12) This quote explains the how this chapter starts. About not debating about the important decisions that will affect the country in the future. Instead, they care about their personal goals, such as getting enough money for their TV commercials. Forgetting that they represent the people’s
Gore mainly argues about how media has changed throughout the time. He argues by using Mills’ Method of Agreement on most of his arguments. “According to an authoritative global study, Americans now watch television an average of four hours and thirty-five minutes every day- ninety …show more content…
Thus, they not only protect freedom of assembly as a basic right, they made a special point- in the First Amendment- of protecting the printing press.” (5) The Founder Fathers wanted a representative democracy like the one that the Romans and the ancient Greeks had. A democracy where people had a chance to choose their laws and they had the right of a total freedom of speech. As television being the new way of news media people don’t have the right to say something or the corporations do not hear their opinions. As with printing press, people had the opportunity to be heard. Plus, the most important thing was that the government was about brightness and not money. Furthermore, Gore explains it better when he said “Our Founding Fathers understood this better than any others; they realized that a ‘well-informed citizenry” could govern itself and secure liberty for individuals by substituting reason for brute force. They decisively rejected the three-thousand-year-old superstitious belief in the divine right of kings to rule absolutely and arbitrarily. They reawakened the ancient Greek and Roman Traditions of debating the wisest courses of action by exchanging information and opinion in new ways.” (12) This quote explains the how this chapter starts. About not debating about the important decisions that will affect the country in the future. Instead, they care about their personal goals, such as getting enough money for their TV commercials. Forgetting that they represent the people’s