Sunday, June 1, 2008

"Orwell rolls in his grave argues the media has too much power on public perception and is almost anti-democratic. Do you agree or disagree? Give spec

"Orwell rolls in his grave argues the media has too much power on public perception and is almost anti-democratic. Do you agree or disagree? Give specific examples.

In the video on how the media has power on public perception I saw that whether your republican or democrat your opinion on different news sources isn't very great. Everyone seems to feel like the media has a strong affect on what we believe. Whether your watching CNN or FOX news. As a free country American shouldnt have propoganda and bias towards one souce of news or another. There should be different opinions of course but when different news sources are funded by a specific group or person there is a key component that the source is trying to throw at us. Why is the media trying to change our opinions just frm the facts? The facts should be 100 percent true without a republican telling it in his or her view or visa versa. This is how our country's news media and media in general in anti-democratic. Our news shouldnt be about trying to sway your opinion by having 95 percent republican guests on the show or 95 percent democrats. It should be more equal. When the hews uses the fraze "we report, you decide" then let me decide. I' am not just talking about FOX news it is all news. News in general is flawed and brings out the worst in the best Democracy in the world. This makes our media anti-democratic when there is so much bias and opinion involved. Facts are facts and it should be reported with noones opinion except mine and yours being taken into affect.

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