And so, while people may view the president and presidency from various media angles and generate their own opinions, the overall sentiment of the media towards the president has a way of swaying such opinions, as we can never clearly and objectively see what’s going on for ourselves. The major problem with finding objective news and information, from which one can formulate an opinion, is that most every media source is biased in some way. This forces one to take from diverse news stations, newspapers, internet blogs, etc. in order to forge a balanced opinion. Therein is the confusion of how much to believe from each source and how to piece it all together.
For example in 2006 Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio received a grade F from the NRA with the group vowing to punish him in the 2006 election and contributed to his defeat. However if a candidate receives a grade A from a pressure groups they can expect to be supported with funds and volunteers, for example a grade A candidate would expect to receive donated funds, expect the pressure groups to provide information to their members on why they should vote for the groups preferred candidate; encourage their members to volunteer to work on their campaigns of favoured candidates; provide assistance to
The three things that control TV media in the US is first and foremost the ratings/viewers, second is the advertisers/sponsors, and corporate owners also have a significant influence on the type of media aired. Ever since the inventions of the printing press, radio, and the first televised debate between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon, politics has never been the same. Many efforts have been tried to correct this political bias in the media today but bias will always be at the root of every news organization. One of the major drivers of political bias in the media is technology and freedom of the press. In the old days before we had televisions and internet, we
Over eighty percent of the media is owned by Trans National Corporations. But does ownership have any effect on the media coordinators? According to pluralists the answer is simply no. They back this by highlighting the fact that power is dispersed within society and that different pressure and interest groups all influence the media, which reacts accordingly. For instance Green Peace; an interest group can easily be identified as an influencer in media response.
The positive side is that for the most part, new stations will broadcast the truth. This helps insures that the people know the true pros and cons of the two major candidates, instead of just the paid advertising. News reporting also has adverse effects, they tend to only display and talk about the democratic and republican parties and thus only show two or even only one side on a specific issue. This can be extremely bad for the American people. If the people don't know all the different potential solutions, how can they be expected to choose the best one?
How the Information and News Media Have Affected American Culture The news media has changed the social behavior of human in terms of information, communication, and entertainment. Newspapers, magazines, paper journals and books were the old media of information. With the advancements of News Media people can acquire information they require from any website. In some sense, people sense that news media has made the world a smaller place to live. Face-to-face contact is becoming less and causing attention deficits.
I’ll be using the same article in the next section, because he then informs his readers how to identify when a news corporation is considered bias. First, Entman states that “most of the studies that do explicitly explore bias focus on presidential campaigns and administrations and find little evidence of decisive or consistent, liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican bias, but yet this still sits uneasily alongside other findings that reveal news consistently favoring one side and seem to not be considered “bias”, but slanted.” ( Entman 2003) The best definition of power is the ability to get others to do what one wants, in order for a news corporation to disperse the power they wish to different issues, or in this case, political views, they use what is called
ASH informs people of the danger of smoking. Pressure groups add a degree of political participation. Due to the increase in voting apathy, pressure groups gain popularity so that they can influence policy on their behalf - or when the people don’t get a chance to say; e.g. when there is not a general election. Political participation through pressure groups holds the government to account, preventing an elected dictatorship and an accumulation of power.
I found the practical sections of this book to be extremely helpful. For instance, when Brooks explains the benefit of asking the “so what” question of the good news text, I was motivated to look at a few of my sermons that had already been preached and ask the “so what” question of the text. Brooks is clear that the Bible is the foundation of preaching. This statement as she points out may seem to be one that there is agreement with among preachers, however as is pointed out there are those who believe that good news may come from other sources. It has been my experience in hearing sermons that the Bible is the source of the good news that is proclaimed.
Conservative Charles Krauthammer uses parallel structure and figurative language to compare an Obama and Romney presidency. Frank Rich uses diction and ethos to present Romney as a bad person who should not be allowed the presidency. Conservative Ross Douthat’s column talks about the changing demographics of America and how it was part of the reason why the Republicans didn’t win the popular votes. In this column Douthat uses parallel structure by comparing Republicans constituencies and Democratic-leaning constituencies. This establishes ethos because he portrays the Republicans as well-to-do people who go to church regularly while he refers to the Democrats as unchurched and recent immigrants.