In your opinion, how legitimate do you think media manipulation is?
2007-08-25 06:04:26 · 4 answers · asked by Shi Min H 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
When it comes to facts weather,sports and local news they are, world events our government absolutely not legitimate.
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2007-08-25 06:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by stephenmwells 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only manipulation that is going on involves grabbing and holding an audience so that you can get an opportunity to sell them some more stuff. Even the little tidbit of advanced information concerning the upcoming presentation of some story is called a "tease" in the business. In the rush to report something, "breaking news" all too often becomes "faking news".
TV news is merely a headline service, supplemented by brief video footage designed to root the viewer to the spot.
Even newspapers are partially guilty of this when they begin with a headline designed to change one's heart rate or raise one's adrenaline level, only to have the story line become increasingly contradictory to the headline.
That's borne out by a lot of the questions posted on this forum, where people go into a rant about some story based solely on their reaction to the headline and the first paragraph of the story.
Although TV news is fairly new, the "grab 'em and hold 'em" technique is not. I'm reminded of a classic headline which appeared in some regional newspaper in England after the loss of RMS Titanic. It concerned one of the people who died in that tragedy: "Local Woman Drowns In Mid-Atlantic".
2007-08-25 06:46:51 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Media is owned now by a very few people, however if they are good owners or publishers they don't interfere in the news division's objectivity. However that's not saying every owner or publisher allows for independence. Fox News is a perfect example, it is the right wing televised pr frim of the GOP and the white house and it's claim for objectivity and fairness is a joke.
As for other networks that are owned by corporations, hopefully integrity, objectivity and fairness remains, but I do think there's less and real reporting going on in American news, perhaps with British news and Canadian news as well but so far it's quite that evident. In print it is .
Hopefully this will just be a phase and real reporting will come into vogue again.
2007-08-25 06:14:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its very real.
Watch Manufacturing Consent.
2007-08-25 09:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by Memetics 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋