Public ownership

News stories are biased because of how they are interpreted by people and what the media chooses to include or not include in their stories. This makes it biased. We all receive information and think about things differently. It’s not the news that presents the events differently, it is the individual and their understanding of the past and present that forms their opinion about the events presented. Therefore, bias in the news will always be there because we all view and interpret information…

“I’ve read both of your bestselling books. They’re nothing short of brilliant. The ideas in these books have become the blueprint for something your supporters call The Movement. What is The Movement?” Sean asked. “The Movement is made up of individuals who ascribe to a simple principle: The belief that the individual is the source from which the greatness of a nation rises and falls - not the collective.” “Your critics say that your libertarian ideas have no place in 21st century America.…

It is as if the media is a mind control artist swinging a pendulum and we do as it says. Islamaphobia is one of the many things that have been widespread throughout the nation. The recent fear of Ebola was everywhere. It created an outcry from the public, such a big outcry it has to this day influenced every doctors office in the country. Those changes are not done by rational understanding of the subject but rather by the fear and pandemonium created by it. This fear is what drives media…

A. AG: It’s safe to assume that everyone in this classroom has looked at some form of news at some point in your life, according to an article written by the MintPress News, 60% of information reported by Fox News in 2015 was false. 1. Aaron Blake, a writer for the Washington Post, stated that people only watch reported news that agrees with their political beliefs. 2. Meaning that the majority of news audiences are subjectively one-sided and don’t get both sides of the story, only the…

Propaganda is a powerful communication tool used by both; the Government or Enterprises. It is usually defined as the purposeful dissemination of political, ideological ideas or opinion. With the aim to influence the public at large in certain way, one can infer that most information is certainly not impartial. George Orwell is known as a novelist, essayist and critic. As the author of books like “Homage to Catalonia”(1938), “Animal Farm”(1945) and “Nineteen Eighty-Four”(1949), Orwell created…

Know how media has an impact on our society nowadays, how media underestimates people’s mentalities, why they tend to use a variety of methods of fabrication to deliver the wrong message to the world, as well as why sometimes the truth is not being revealed to us. 1) What is the impact of media on our society nowadays? 2) Do all media channels and websites tell the truth in today’s world? If not, why do they hide the truth? 3) What kind of misinformation do media spread? 4) Do media ac 5)…

science and social sciences there needs to be more freedom of discussion about current events without any personal beliefs in the way. But when you have members of the Texas state Board of Education that don’t believe education should be taught in public schools, it gets dangerous. As Bill Nye says, there is an economic impact, if there are young people raised believing that the world is only 10,000 years old and rejecting scientific discoveries it will suppress…

Since the time when mankind could put two syllables together, people have voiced their opinions. When mass media started as newspapers and pamphlets, people have been able to spread their opinions to over a wide population. Since then, the media has evolved and grown into a writhing beast spewing opinions and facts indiscriminately with no regard as to which is truth and which is nonsense. The media in the United States creates a blanket of fear over the population of the country and often…

In this piece, Bimber shares his theory of how changes in the cost, structure and accessibility of information lead to changes in the political system. He describes three information regimes that existed before the current one. The first involved the creation of the U.S. Postal Service and the American newspaper industry. This allowed the national flow of political information which was impossible before. These changes also led to the creation of national political parties. During the second…

On September 25,2013,the Huffington post published “Foreign News at a Crisis point”, an article by Peter Goodman, executive business and global editor at the Huffington Post. He claims that some journalists are reporting foreign news and not informing the audience of the real facts. He specifically argues that we need professional journalists and need to find new ways to report foreign news that will properly inform the audience. To strengthen his argument, Goodman uses three rhetorical…