The media has years of experience in shaping their reader’s mentality without any one of them realizing what is being done. Not just media but just about every author falls guilty when it comes to the spreading of information. Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk worked together in writing a book called Understanding and Using English. In it, the topic of charged and slanted language is defined and discussed in great detail alongside examples. It is important to be aware of slanted and charged language because it affects everyone’s lives in a negative way by causing misinterpretation and the spreading of false information. Slanted Language is one of the two forms of representing information which is described as “... giving of stress to subject
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Because of this, many people love being informed about the current status of the area they live in, or they may also be interested in the events happening in other locations around the world. For this people turn to the media in order to gain the information they desire. However, the way that the information is obtained and released back to society is through a human being, as well. This almost certainly means the news given out will have some form of charged or slanted language. “...beliefs about morality and truth and religion as well as about public affairs… reliable judgments are at best difficult to arrive at” (399). Many reasons can become a factor of author’s publications whether it be intended or not. “Speakers 2 and 3, for instance, probably thought of themselves as simply giving information about a dog and were not deliberately trying to mislead” (398). It can be entirely unintentional whether information written is slanted or not since what might be charged to the reader might not be charged to the author. This now becomes the main reason why these two forms of literature are unavoidable. Humans have complex minds and considering his or her own lifestyle completely differentiates them from the billions of others on the planet. What may affect him or her in one way might be entirely different towards somebody else, making it completely inescapable. Because of this, the information we receive will almost always be misleading causing assumptions to be made without knowing the whole
Because of this, many people love being informed about the current status of the area they live in, or they may also be interested in the events happening in other locations around the world. For this people turn to the media in order to gain the information they desire. However, the way that the information is obtained and released back to society is through a human being, as well. This almost certainly means the news given out will have some form of charged or slanted language. “...beliefs about morality and truth and religion as well as about public affairs… reliable judgments are at best difficult to arrive at” (399). Many reasons can become a factor of author’s publications whether it be intended or not. “Speakers 2 and 3, for instance, probably thought of themselves as simply giving information about a dog and were not deliberately trying to mislead” (398). It can be entirely unintentional whether information written is slanted or not since what might be charged to the reader might not be charged to the author. This now becomes the main reason why these two forms of literature are unavoidable. Humans have complex minds and considering his or her own lifestyle completely differentiates them from the billions of others on the planet. What may affect him or her in one way might be entirely different towards somebody else, making it completely inescapable. Because of this, the information we receive will almost always be misleading causing assumptions to be made without knowing the whole