Dwayne Edwards
Professor Jeglinski
How Current events shape the world
The media’s ability to
make viewers and readers express feelings when they report news, leaves me to
feel that they are liberal. When news is
reported most of the time the truth is over exaggerated or certain facts are
stressed more then others. Most importantly, may be some of the things they
leave out. I ask myself, "Is half of the truth still the truth?" In my eyes the media is liberal although they
may leave out key facts, they never hide their emotions as in the Casey Anthony
trial. The general public had began to
get fed up with Anthony's lies. The media began to unleash their wrath on this
young lady, USA Today had a article titled "How the Casey Anthony case
came apart". Although I am not
thoroughly educated on the specifics of the case I felt as though she was
guilty. She happened to get off easy, but maybe thats what the media wanted it
to be portrayed as.
Another example of the
media being liberal is Tmz's cover on the Kobe Bryant divorce. In the article "Kobe Bryant's wife
scores BIG in divorce" TMZ seems to disagree with how the courts rulled.
They gave her 75 million and 3 houses of Kobe's. Although Kobe has never spoke publicly on the
issue, the media has portrayed it as Kobe taking a major loss. 75 million is an
ample amount of money to give up, but maybe she deserves it. From all of the articles I read on this topic
including yahoo sports, it seemed they wanted you to feel as though it was Kobe
that was losing out on a lot and not his ex wife or children who were losing
out on a complete family. In one of last years biggest stories, the Penn State child sex abuse scandal was highly publicized. The media portrayed Jerry Sandusky, the alleged molester, to be an abomination of society and someone who prayed on the weak. The pressure of the media was mostly applied to Joe Paterno, the head coach of the program at the time, because he was told what was occurring and did not do enough to stop it. He was subsequently fired from his job. I believe the media had a part in Paterno being fired due to the heat they brought upon him and the program. Liberals believe in the right to individual freedoms, the freedom of speech by the news stations may have been a detonating factor in the brash of firings.
The Associated press (2011, September 9). Penn State scandal timeline. Huffingtonpost.com. retrieved Feb 3 2011 from
TMZ staff (2011 January 20). Kobe Bryants wife Vanessa scores BIG in divorce. TMZ.com. retrieved Feb 3 2011 from http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/20/kobe-vanessa-bryant-divorce-settlement/
Dwayne,
ReplyDeleteNot bad. It's interesting that you find bias in sports/entertainment news. It's there, for sure. But what makes it liberal or conservative? I think that these sections of the paper may be the only sections without political sway.
You have your 3 paragraphs, but they need to follow the format a little closer. Your second paragraph should focus on who would disagree with you and why. Who would argue your analysis.
Give them a paragraph, so that you can intellectually defeat them in your 3rd paragraph (your analysis).
I see that you've listed your sources, but please also include the "fact" that you used from those sources: statistic, quote, etc.
Overall, a good start, with room for improvement.
GR: 88