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  • Editors And Journalists In The Media
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    The Media's Role in Informing the Public We do not often print everything we know, reveals David Lawrence, publisher of the Miami Herald (qtd. in Valente 4). There is a contrast between printing everything that is known, selecting information to disregard, and presenting information that is simply false. This difference has an impact on society. Media personnel representing a major bias also have an affect on facts that are being analyzed by the masses. Thus, accuracy in journalism is important ...
  • News Media
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    Essay #1 The News Being "objective" has been an unrealistic ethic that defines the news media. Fallows ages that journalism and the news has provided largely "entertainment fluff" and has virtually selected unthinking news communicated to the American people; and Parenti agrees and states that the Media is big business and therefore is not independent, objective, neutral, informative, balanced, and truthful. Their ideas may seem outlandish and farfetched, but it is the fact of life for the media...
  • People's Point Of View In The Media
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    Jamie DemetriouJamie DemetriouSoc 202 Dr. Wood 02/28/01 Many times we hear things through media and don't actually listen to what they may say. When people hear something through mass media, they don't realize that there is a person's point of view stated in the story. And many times what people don't see is that there is no such thing as an objective point of view. This is called Rhetoric; when someone states their point of view using words that either sway an audiences opinions one way or anot...
  • News Media
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    Media Opinions Have you seen today's headlines? Yesterday's paper looked more like an opinion page than news. Nicholas Von Hoffman wrote, "Butchers make sausage. Newspapers make public affairs. Has that hunger driven the media out of control?" (Nachman 26). The media manipulates the facts of the news to fit their own agendas and I think it needs to stop. In the beginning ages of our country, the people of our nation made laws that they thought would be just and good for the nation. Of the press ...
  • Role Of Mass Media In Politics
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    Role Of Mass Media In Politics In this discussion I call upon two movies as examples and evidence to examine the role of mass media in politics. The two movies I will use for this basis are The Candidate and All the Presidents Men. Today, the art of governing a society seems to be much dictated or prescribed by what the assemblage of the citizens of the United States say or express to the mass media. Thus, the government and politicians listening to and acting upon our very wishes and desires. O...
  • History Of Sensationalism In The Media
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    How Sensationalism Affects Everyone Involved In today's society journalism is under close scrutiny and is losing its credibility. Sensationalism effects both those who receive it in addition to those who report it. This essay will review the history of sensationalism in the media, clearly demonstrate how sensationalism effects ours views on journalism, and confront the ethical dilemmas that journalists must face between reporting objectively and reporting what sells. This will be accomplished by...
  • Clinton's Clemency Offer To 16 Hispanic Prisoners
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    Today, more than ever the media plays a pivotal role in the ways in which Americans think and what they believe. Media can influence the masses in a number of different ways. Without the media it would be virtually impossible for the typical American citizens to be informed of today's events. But information is not always the media's goal. In fact, it rarely is. Many Americans feel that they can form opinions on there own. But, unknowingly opinion's are formed simply by what paper gets delivered...
  • Talented Like Tally Atwater
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    "Up Close and Personal" The "Movie Up Close and Personal", is a modern-day story about a young reporter, Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer), who is determined to make a place for herself in the broadcasting field as a news reporter. At a Miami, Florida based station, where she is given her first chance at making it, Atwater meets Warren Justice (Robert Redford), a well known reporter who has irritated some important people in his career. Justice shows Atwater the ropes of becoming a successful ne...
  • Media Content And News Coverage
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    The media has tremendous power to shape the political agenda, shape our images of politicians and policies, and to influence our images of our society and ourselves. From this, the question arises whether it's possible to have an unbiased and objective news coverage. The answer to that is a simple no. Media content and news coverage is definitely affected by the views, ideals, and interests of those who seek out, write, and produce news and other stories. Take for example reporters. They often h...
  • Media Reports
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    The plot of! S SWag the Dog!" has the President getting into an unrecoverable scandal two weeks before re-election. The President of the United States apparently had a sexual encounter with an underage Girl Scout in the Oval Office. The president's opponents get wind of the story and use it to their advantage. Facing a desperate hour, the White House enlists a spin-control doctor, Conrad Brean, to divert the nation's attention by inventing a war with Albania. Conrad gets assistance from a presid...
  • News Media
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    Introduction In a survey conducted in 1997, ninety five percent of the 1,500 people that responded said they wanted more information about crime. Over the years, there have been many studies of News Media and crime coverage. This survey indicates that viewers want to see crime. The more violent the crime the more there is interest. "People want to know about crime". (Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission, 2002). The News Media commonly uses extensive coverage of violent crime to increase...
  • Opinion On Euthanasia
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    Good Morning ladies and gentleman. Today I am here to inform you about the topic of euthanasia and how it is perceived in the media. First you need to understand what euthanasia is. Euthanasia is a way of bringing about a gentle and easy death if you have an incurable and painful disease or just decide it is time to die. If that sounds like such as reasonable idea, bringing about a gentle death instead of a painful one then why is there so much debate about this controversial issue? Euthanasia m...
  • American Media
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    The media plays a major role in shaping people's opinions about the rest of the world. Unfortunately, global media ownership has dwindled from 50 (in 1983) to currently about nine mega-corporations, including AOL Time Warner, Disney, General Electric, News Corporation and Viacom, resulting in an increasingly banal and parochial selection of news and issues for the American public. Foreign news is lacking except in the events of disasters, wars or ruffled American interests. The industry has beco...
  • President Clinton
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    All the President's Men takes a look at one of the most notorious episodes in our country's history. The issue behind it, Watergate, is still discussed today and considered to be the worst scandal every suffered by the office of the President of the United States. One of the central figures of this event was the media and the role it played in unveiling the corruption and illegal practices that occurred. As we look back on the scandal we see it set a precedent for the future on how the media cou...

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