February 21, 2006
Good morning world! How are you today?
Did you watch the news this morning? Depressing isn't it? I usually try to avoid the news but with all the church fires here in Alabama I find myself listening a little more. I actually started watching the news regularly when Natalie Holloway disappeared in Aruba last summer but I had almost stopped when the church fires started and now I need my daily dose again.
I guess it's important to keep up with current events but I don't always like the way they are presented by our media. I was taught in grade school that the media was a biased medium in which a person (the reporter or writer) presented his own view and left you to decide what you believe. Now I am told (by a government school grammar book) that the media is an unbiased medium in which all facts are presented equally, but this simply is not true. Nobody presents anything in an unbiased opinion. I don't believe we're even capable of that. Rather the media presents all things with a very biased opinion and tries to pass it off as non-biased.
As I write this it is very biased as to the way that I feel about the media. Your opinion is just as worthy as mine but I'm not writing yours am I. So I present a biased opinion.
It also distresses me that after the sensationalism of a story wears off it disappears, possibly never to be heard about again. If the story has a satisfactory conclusion it may make an appearance again later, but many times the suspects are reported along with mug shots and then we never hear about these people again. Were they guilty or innocent?
The media works on the premise that if you mention it heavily for weeks and then let it go away, people will forget. We get this with politicians all the time.
- steps off her soapbox for now. I'll try to pick a lighter subject next time. Thanks for reading!
Good morning world! How are you today?
Did you watch the news this morning? Depressing isn't it? I usually try to avoid the news but with all the church fires here in Alabama I find myself listening a little more. I actually started watching the news regularly when Natalie Holloway disappeared in Aruba last summer but I had almost stopped when the church fires started and now I need my daily dose again.
I guess it's important to keep up with current events but I don't always like the way they are presented by our media. I was taught in grade school that the media was a biased medium in which a person (the reporter or writer) presented his own view and left you to decide what you believe. Now I am told (by a government school grammar book) that the media is an unbiased medium in which all facts are presented equally, but this simply is not true. Nobody presents anything in an unbiased opinion. I don't believe we're even capable of that. Rather the media presents all things with a very biased opinion and tries to pass it off as non-biased.
As I write this it is very biased as to the way that I feel about the media. Your opinion is just as worthy as mine but I'm not writing yours am I. So I present a biased opinion.
It also distresses me that after the sensationalism of a story wears off it disappears, possibly never to be heard about again. If the story has a satisfactory conclusion it may make an appearance again later, but many times the suspects are reported along with mug shots and then we never hear about these people again. Were they guilty or innocent?
The media works on the premise that if you mention it heavily for weeks and then let it go away, people will forget. We get this with politicians all the time.
- steps off her soapbox for now. I'll try to pick a lighter subject next time. Thanks for reading!
posted by Tammy | 10:56 AM
1 Comments:
Try Fox News. It's the closest thing to objective reporting left. I like worldnetdaily.com as well.
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