My question is: has our media led to the decay of our society? Is present media (including internet sites such as this) been tainted or is tainting our perception of the world?
I just finished watching the movie about Edward R. Murrow and his fight with Sen. McCarthy and hearing the profound words of his & Mr. Friendly, it occured to me that they were so very right. In the special features of the film, it told of Mr. Morrow's death 6 years ago and how he had been completely disillusioned by the media of today.
This country 40-60 years ago certainly had a very militaristic government, individuals had less rights and the government seemed like a distant father who allowed only what he thought was appropriate to be out in the open...the media was very obliging in this, but also believed that the government was filled with mostly people of good intentions, and it probably was. Individualism and freedom was important to all Americans and the country was very patriotic.
2006-11-05 05:58:21 · 3 answers · asked by Ford Prefect 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
but it appears that things are changed, so many things are decided behind closed doors and the media has a complete grip on our access to information that the information is designed to fit a perception that may or may not be real or is designed to lead us to certain conclusions we would not have found. Should the media, even with the occasional mistake, be allowed more freedom to bring us facts free from government intervention such as jailing journalists?
2006-11-05 06:07:31 · update #1
when Cnn and Fox tell the audience how to think by the messages they transmit over and over in different ways...they cannot be free of bias...they cannot act in a vacume as purely the messenger of the news, just by deciding to bring a story to the airwaves, they affect public opinion. Air America, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, CNN are very complicent in this barrage of editorialized news
2006-11-05 06:14:42 · update #2
Without a free media, the government will be unfettered in deciding how to "manage" us...and they will manage us if we let them
2006-11-05 06:16:04 · update #3
http://www.pipa.org/
2006-11-05 06:28:47 · update #4
Murrow and Chrokite were icons of journalism history. Also on that list should be: David Brinkley and Chet Huntley http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/brinkleydav/brinkleydav.htm
I think there are some good journalists around today but we have fallen into the pit of sensationalist skewed "yellow" journalism that has its own agenda; which is not usually giving you all the facts to make an intelligent decision.
Reporting the facts is hard to do if your network is leaning toward one party or ideology.
No one reads the papers anymore which means the rank and file of citizens all over the world get their news from: TV, radio and the Internet.
Actually, I think the opposite is true and we are living in the time of Big Brother. We have much fewer freedoms than they did in the 50's or before.
2006-11-05 06:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Media is now a great world superpower, they may have no army, but everyone fears them. And our country is now divided along the line drawn between Fox news and CNN!
2006-11-05 06:06:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 07:40:40 · answer #3 · answered by janski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋