how is the media controlled?
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News media are controlled in a variety of ways, including laws that govern their practices-libel and slander legislation- controlled by advertisers (the need for revenue) and the level of professionalism displayed by media practiioners (eg. having untrained reporters in the newsroom can pose major ethical questions, as well as media owners who do not understand the importance of a free press) Good luck with ur paper.
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in news stories of columbine type massacres they have pointed out how the people were said to have communicated over the Internet.  I hardly see how it would be possible but if the Bushies want to further restrict free speech like in the phone taps they'll figure out a way to do it.  \n\nI can see how you might monitor suspicious subjects but with the mass number of communications over the net don't see how you could ever obtain any useful info.  I can email my uncle that lives across town through a server in Asia, ya know what I mean.
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I actually think the media has much more of a conservative slant.  Considering that most main-stream media is owned by giant corporations, this is not surprising.\n\nMay I ask how you manage to fit so much information into your questions without going into the additional details?
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I try to take what the media says with a grain of salt because the media can be very misleading.  There are 5 or 6 major media companies that control all of what we learn about current events, so ultimately they control and decide what we know.  \n\nI try to take both sides into consideration, but, to be honest, sometimes my beliefs stand in my way, just as they would anyone.  I'm not talking about religious beliefs, but more like my viewpoint on abortion and income taxes.  But there was one point in time when I initially made decisions about these things for myself.
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The media is owned by liberals and there agenda is to change America into a socialist country, so they only show what would help their cause, The big wigs that own the news media are Democratic liberals, they also own all of the newspaper media so that's why the newspapers are slanted also. So most of the time you can't believe what you see on TV or read in the papers, you have to remember there is probably another side to the story, the side they don't want you to see, and you witnessed this process so be where. Thanks for telling us.
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media centre is the right answer
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You can't...İt is not how it works.You can only rely on what the newspapers giving you.They put special equipment to people's houses who are willing to do that for them.That's how they see how many people watch what...
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by media do you mean something serious like FT or Herald Tribune??? I doubt many americans read either of those.\nAre they brainwashed by media like Fox and USA today? Probably...but i wouldn't even call those two "media"...
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Distraction is the media's way of taking your attention from the real issues. Just focus on what is important to you, who cares what other people want to focus on.
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Media doesn't effect the Governement.  Government effects media.   Media exlusivly represents private interest and thusly only reflects values and ideas of a handful of individuals.
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mister is correct. everything from your electric, phone, cable, water, car, traffic lights, banks, ATM's. TV's VCR's TIVO even your watch if you have a digital. Everything is a form of computer or controled by one.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDIA IN TODAYS WORLD IS EVIDENT FROM THE FACT THAT IT HAS THE POWER TO INFLUENCE THE LIVES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE IN EVERY WAY..BE IT JUDICIARY..BE IT POLITICIANS..BE IT CRIMINALS..OR BE IT SIMPLE CITIZENS WHO ARE  FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL TO COPE WITH THE GROWING INFLATION...
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In theory the media exists to keep the populace informed on current events and important communication from the government and law enforcement agencies. It is intended to be unbiased and factual.\n\nThe reality is just the opposite. The role of the media as it exists today is to control and manipulate the populace. Sometimes in accordance with government, sometimes in opposition to the government but always along its own world-view. The media exerts a heavy-handed and no-apologies slant on events with the ultimate intent of herding the masses like brainless sheep. Their method is based on entertainment. Insidiously infusing biased interpretation and unbalanced pseudo-facts with sensationalist glitz and flash, the media competes among itself to grab viewers/readers/listeners and then tells you only what it wants to. The consumer cannot trust the media's product as there is no base line for comparison. Some counter-media groups exist but they are just as unbalanced in their own way. It is unlikely that any human based media organization can exist as a totaly unbiased source of information. or if they were, no one would watch as it would be very dry. Consumers are conditioned to seek entertainment and expect a degree of excitiement in their information. \n\nI offer as example a local tv news story a few years ago involving a train wreck. Most viewers share in-common a human empathy for the victims and family of those effected and the tragedy of a father and daughter laying in the wreckage dead would be sad for all. An unbiased report would disscuss the facts in a cool and business-like fashion leaving the viewer to assess the meaning of the event on their own. Instead the tv station spent many minutes of air time focusing on the devastated mother who lost her entire family. Cameras with tight closeups of her tear streaked face and a reporter sticking his microphone at her asking the inane question, "how does this make you feel?" I suggest this reporter should have carried his microphone in a personal oriface that is apt not to see the light of day. A station that condones such a callous intrusion on an individual's grief is irresponsible. What message are they making? Are viewers so mindless that they need a tv reporter to tell them it is time to grieve? Sensationalist journalism aimed at gaining viewers and controlling the thoughts and actions of viewers along station policy. That is the role of media today in our daily lives.
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The media. Through spin and sensationalism they control the minds and emotions of the masses. They are the one international power that affects every civilized nation without exception and can induce riots, revolts, protests, public outrage, boycotts, or whatever else they wish.
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Who were they??? Does it matter. Hitler, Stalin, First Disarm then Control the media.
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The media is suppose to be neutral but it leans everywhere.....
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Cause & Effect: How does the media shape society?\n\nArgumentation: United States citizens need to elect a Democratic president because...