In the United States, television censorship excludes certain topics and language from airing (Pearson). Television networks have to appeal to all types of viewers with different backgrounds and beliefs in order to make profits and increase their ratings. In order to achieve this, the network has to be very careful not to offend a group of people. For example in 1959, “Playhouse 90” had to cut out all references of gas chambers from it’s episode “Judgment Nuremberg” which reenacted the Nazi trials because it may be offensive or hard to watch for some people (Lendler). Anything that may challenge the moral, political, or military views of the audience must be banned
This is still done today through networks such as MSNBC, FOX news and ABC. There is live up to date coverage of almost every event going on in the political campaigns. Although television sets have advanced in technology, the ways that people gather round in their living rooms watching their favorite prime time sitcom hasn’t changed a bit. It was a time for relaxation and entertainment as it remains the same today. Television was in control over society, but would
On May 11, 1973 Senator Proxmire, Vice President Agnew, and a few others have criticized the press about the allegations made about the Watergate scandals. One journalist in particular was accused of false accusations, Mr. John Dean. Mr. Dean reported about the Watergate scandals calling it was a cover up and president Nixon knew about what was going on. Most newspaper editorials backed up Dean saying that journalist’s job is to report the whole story and not just half of the story. Allegations acquired saying that Dean planned it all, it was a self-serving tale and that Dean wanted minimal criminal charges and maximum leverage in immunity (Jones & Company,
In 2001 Bernard Goldberg released his book “Bias A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.” In it Goldberg voices his accounts at CBS where he worked as a reporter and a producer for nearly thirty years. He discusses how liberal bias influences the mainstream media. He tells us how he comes to this opinion and how he attempted to bring this to the attention of the network executives. When he comes to the conclusion that no one will listen or do anything about the problem he decides to blow the whistle on his own company and the mainstream press in a Wall Street Journal piece. I chose this topic because I thought that liberal bias in the mainstream media existed but never really did any research.
Last night, I watched the most recent episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. One of the segments was dedicated to a clip of Obama speaking during his campaign in 2007, where he supposedly made some racist comments and was supporting class warfare. Jon Stewart’s segment pulled out a clip from FOX News, where the anchor made a comment along the lines of “People are saying this has already been reported on, but I know it hasn’t because I reported on it the first time.” This clip was the central focus of the segment because of the sheer stupidity of his comment, let alone the fact that he contradicted himself by claiming something hadn’t been done and then saying he did it. I think the piece was negative, because it was meant to portray FOX
The people in the movie did not take being part of the government very seriously and that is why all of this mishap happened to begin with. Towards the end of the movie, Dave confronts the United States people about all the faults of the real president, Bill Mitchell. In the end of the movie everything starts to get cleared up and the vice president becomes the president directly after the United States people were told about Bill Mitchell’s death. That was a good way of using governmental power because they did not hide his death from the people of the United States. I learned a lot from this assignment.
It took about a year to get the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy appealed. The first time it was first submitted for appealed was December 2010. July 6, 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members. When President Obama was campaigning back in 2008 before he was elected he made many uplifting speeches that some compared to the speeches s of the famous civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King gave. One of the most influential promises President Barrack Obama made was getting the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell done away with once and for all by starting the bill of getting the policy appealed.
In June 2012, Fox News released a tape about Obama breaking his oath to help immigration and it seemed as if he was contradicting himself and not prioritizing it. The Fox news caster stated, before the unveiling of the tape, “Let me play this for the audience so they can understand and fully grasp here the magnitude of what he did on Friday.” Fox made it clear that they wanted the audience to “fully” grasp a lie. Stuart on the “Daily Show” showed the full tape instead of only a portion of the tape like Fox, and display to his cynical audience how deceptive Fox truly is. The full tape revealed how Obama, in reality is still prioritizing and reinforcing his beliefs, unlike how Fox interpreted it. On the “Daily Show” Stuart, after broad casting the corrupted video, used a sarcastic tone and commended Fox for showing such a shocking video and even apologize for past “mistakes” of ridiculing Fox.
According to cnn.com, during the court hearing over Cher and Nicole Ritchie's comments against the FCC, Carter Phillips, a Washington attorney for Fox, repeatedly quoted the disputed language in open court. "Phillips told the three-judge panel that the FCC had approved the use of those precise words in a broadcast of the film "Saving Private Ryan," a distinction that left broadcasters in the unfair position of guessing when the words were appropriate and when they were not. In an unusual move for a federal court, the judges allowed C-Span cameras to broadcast the hearing, which led Judge Peter W. Hall to ask Eric D. Miller, the lawyer for the government, whether a news broadcast on the case would draw FCC scrutiny. Miller said no, because a news broadcast would not be intended "to pander or titillate." " The FCC itself admits on the Q and A section of its website that they do not have a concrete definition when it comes to profanity, " Q:Are there certain words that are always unlawful?
t was in late July that a representative from a public radio talk show asked me to take part in a program on “all the insanity about the twenty-fifth anniversary.” He didn’t have to say the twenty-fifth anniversary of what, but I still didn’t know what he was getting at. It seemed to me that in 2002, twenty-five years after Elvis Presley’s death, and more than two years after the last interesting Elvis impersonator, Bill Clinton, had left his stage, the real story was the evaporation of Elvis Presley in American life. What was striking, given the staggering ubiquity of Elvis Presley after his death, was his disappearance from ordinary talk, paintings, movies, t-shirts, other people’s songs—from the cultural conversation through which a society explains itself to itself. The commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of August 16, 1977 seemed more than anything a media mirage churned up by Graceland smoke machines. A Graceland spokesman had recently discussed the problem facing the operation: if Elvis Presley was indeed immortal, his fans were not.