I won’t drone on about this years election, it’s tough enough trying to avoid all the slanted talk coming straight out of the media.
But I do want to point out something many of you may already know about. Journalism.org has been keeping tabs on these powerful networks that serve as a communication line to the people. They had some interesting discoveries about the election.
What they discovered only underlines the point of this blog. The slanted way the media reports is disgusting! Surprisingly, FOX seemed to be the most balanced when it came to negative and positive reporting for both McCain and Obama. I’m not saying that they’re exempt from bias’. Having watched one program on FOX, they seem to be rellishing in the fact that they are more balanced (when it comes to the presidential election.) Which hardly seems like anything that should warrant praise!
The media has become so partisan that when they actually do what they’re supposed to do they expect a pat on the back! Hah! They should simply touch on the statistics instead of gloat the way they’ve been doing; only making themselves look worse.
Either way, I encourage you to see the website linked here about the statistics journalism.org found. It is truly interesting.
News has the power to manipulate. It can manipulate the minds of its readers or audience. People instill a sort of blind trust in the news. They trust that what they are reading it true. Although I hardly know how valid that statement is today.
But, for the most part, people like to think that they are reading facts, being reported on by someone who is professional and knows to cover all sides. This is not true anymore. Journalists are taking that power that media has to manipulate and abusing it.
If you believe the news is powerful, imagine the people who control the news.
The news can manipulate, but it can also be manipulated. Whoever has control over that news is able to do with it their hearts desire.
This is the scary reality of the media. Journalists are really more powerful than one may think. They get the news before it’s filtered, rewritten and regurgitated onto you, it’s audience.
Every time you pick up a newspaper, watch a news program, realize that it has gone through many sticky fingers that had their say on whether it was correct… newsworthy.
