When you read ( or hear) about what our Leaders are doing, is the article framed to teach you something they want you to know that makes you turn against your government?
Does the "talking head" smile or smirk when He/she mentions something about our Leader?
Are you being taken in by the way things are told to you?
Does the add succeed in tuning you around?
How much of yourself do you give away by the end of the broadcast?
2006-09-21 14:23:51 · 16 answers · asked by Mr.Been there 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I think for the most part you are right. Everyone has a hidden agenda. There was a time when the press was unbiased. I mean all media.....visual, audio, and print.
Most newspapers today have a slant. Either to the left or to the right. Read their stories and read their op-ed pages. It will not be hard to find which way they lean. Same thing for television news. They tend to become very partisan and very self serving. Pretty much like Congress as a whole.
What gripes me, is that instead of showing or reporting a complete and balanced story, they show you what they want you to see, hear and read. That is how they sway the populace. It is incomplete and incorrect data, which is commonly referred to as propaganda.
Most people do not realize this and they follow whatever the "boob tube" tells them. Instead of using their own brains and interpret the data on their own to form their own ideas and opinions. It is hard to come to a rational conclusion with incomplete data.
Ads never sway me, because I know they are just selling something. I take everything I see on TV with a grain of salt.
2006-09-21 14:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by submariner662 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They provide diluted information that is no way a holistic representation of the truth, just the most interesting to the average person. The factors affecting what a journalist writes include their audience, sponsors, editors and audience. Often a writer will leave out certain sensitive information to protect a subject or source and to keep a piece from being too graphic. Feel good personality profiles, while nice to read, don't sell papers, so stories about death and destruction make the front page. This is not the fault of the writer, but what the reader wants. The bottom line is the almighty dollar.
You have to ask yourself, "Do you have a certain agenda in asking this question, or are you being impartial as well?"
2006-09-21 14:29:47 · answer #2 · answered by Joel D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't trusted the press since Vietnam. All the crap about liberal bias is greatest piece of dissemination going. Oops second greatest, because Bible is greatest. Be a doubting Thomas about everything. Vote for people that will breakup current monopoly or most likely you will wake up one day and find yourself in a dictatorship. Roosevelt really knew from the inside what he was doing when he put into place safeguards, which no longer exist.
2006-09-21 14:42:41 · answer #3 · answered by Mister2-15-2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in bias in journalim but I believe it exist. Sensationalism is what sells.
Ex. Of the thousands of letters of outrage over the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, did the media tell you that most of it came from one source of a small number of people writing, and calling repeatedly?
Ex. Lawsuits for downloading music, how many times have the media used the word pirated. By letter of the law, piracy is a crime committed on the high sea. Don't believe me, look it up for yourself. The correct term was copyright infringement. But that would not be sensational enough to get people's attention.
2006-09-21 14:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by This Is Not Honor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe almost nothing that is being presented to me in the news these days, especially if it comes from Fox News. Mostly I don't think the news people are trying to turn me against the government, but I do think they are playing up to the conservative ownership and management of the media. All that nonsense about the "liberal media" is just a myth.
2006-09-21 14:33:53 · answer #5 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's been proven over and over certain media outlets put their own spin on the stories. They even pass up REAL news stories to puke out insignificant ones if it serves their own special interest.
I scan a wide variety of news sources, and somehow come to believe that you're hearing the extreme ends, so the truth has to be somewhere in the middle.
2006-09-21 14:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody is trying to tell everybody what to think! The religious nuts are after the atheist, the atheist are after them, republicans and democrats are after each other all the time, different race's are always trying to convince the other there being done wrong. Everybody thinks there right and they all get mad if you don't see it there way!
Why should the media be any different!
2006-09-21 14:46:09 · answer #7 · answered by noname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, oh heavens, they absolutely are manipulating the media. If I care about a topic I will do my own research and 9 times out of 10 is was not even close to what the announcer was trying to lead me to.
2006-09-21 14:27:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No doubt, the press has a slant, an angle, a point of view, call it what you may. Everyone does. If you find them convincing, you are free to change your mind. Personally, I think they're full of it and don't believe much of what they say.
2006-09-21 14:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by szydkids 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they are. Someone has to decide what is "news" and that decision is always slanted as well as how its presented. That's human nature to be biased.
2006-09-21 14:25:49 · answer #10 · answered by dhamca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋