2007-06-23 17:51:04 · 7 answers · asked by jjlaidback 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Show me the money honey ~ is their motto
2007-06-23 19:13:38 · answer #1 · answered by 21 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Take a careful look around. The media is filled with positive stories. I just read a great story about a woman runner who was severly injured in the middle of the desert, and her dog went a few miles to get help.
It's easy to think that bad news gets emphasized, because it does jump out. A plane crash is going to get more publicity than the 10,000 flights that land safely. Corruption is a story, honesty isn't. But if you look carefully, there's all sorts of news out there. Just don't get discouraged by the bad stuff.
2007-06-24 21:54:10 · answer #2 · answered by wdx2bb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do sometimes talk about the good events when they are unusual like when a dog saves it's family from a fire by waking them up or when a very young child calls 911 thus saving a parent. Otherwise they would have to list all the planes that didn't crash, all the pregnant women who were not killed by a husband or boyfriend and all the drunk drivers that didn't kill anybody. Tragic events are unusual enough to be newsworthy, thank God.
2007-06-24 01:15:20 · answer #3 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the positive does't garner ratings like the negative.
people like to see the bad and the ugly so that they can either: feel better about themselves/their situations, can criticize others about something they know little or nothing about, or so they can complain about how horrid things are while doing nothing to cause improvements.
add to that the fact that most of the media is owned by the same ideological groups of people who desire to be kingmakers and to rake in the $$ at the expense of their viewers.
2007-06-24 00:57:54 · answer #4 · answered by Act D 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because the media is there to make people look bad not good so if you ever get in the entertainment business don't let them catch you slippin'! paparazzi is everywhere
2007-06-24 01:00:51 · answer #5 · answered by DWebb88-RIP MJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People feed on the misery of others.......If someone is worse of than you then you are more willing to watch ! We're all a bunch of horror and misery junkies anyway!
2007-06-24 01:02:47 · answer #6 · answered by cesare214 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Journalism 101-
good news isn't.
news, that is.
2007-06-24 21:58:35 · answer #7 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋