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Hour by hour minute by minute the media blinds us with propaganda and manipulates us into believing a biased opinion. People see this everyday with tabloids and the media. They lie to us with one sided opinions in politics for a quick buck and they lure people away from the truth. America needs to start thinking for themselves and stop letting the media control their lives. The media is creating filters and providing fake news on important situations in the world. And Americans need to wake up and solve this

The media is an extremely powerful source in society today. Surprisingly, many are unaware of this and choose to believe everything they read in magazines, newspapers and online without actually understanding where this information is coming from. This is a monumental problem in our generation today because like Malcolm X said, the media has the power to make the innocent look guilty and the guilty look innocent. In other words, the media has the power to manipulate our views and perspectives on controversial issues to persuade us to believe their

Plato describes the vision of the real truth to be "aching" to the eyes of the prisoners, and how they would naturally be inclined to going back and viewing what they have always seen as a pleasant and painless acceptance of truth. This stage of thinking is noted as "belief." The comfort of the perceivement, and the fear of the unrecognized outside world would result in the prisoner being forced to climb the steep ascent of the cave and step outside into the bright sun.

The media has been able to manipulate people by making them believe what they say. One example that satirizes the media is a movie called The Truman show. Throughout the Truman show, the main character, Truman Burbank, is trapped in a stage set which he perceives as the real world. As he has lived there for around 30 years he starts to get the perception of being in a false environment. The media plays a big role in our lives as Truman is exposed to the corrupt side of them.

As he talks about the prisoners, he claims that - were they not released and able to go into the outside light - they “would deem reality to be nothing else than the shadows of the artificial objects” (Plato). He describes their original life in the cave as being primitive and conjecture in nature. Once released from their chains, though, the prisoner must make his way past the fire and into the outside world because for Plato, “the entire ascent out of the cave, is a story of progress toward understanding values”

To start off, Truman was a shy and nervous child, and he worked his way out using perseverance. As it’s made apparent, biography.com, a website of multiple contributors for online biographies, shares that Truman was shy and nervous. He always was nervous around women that were older than him, but eventually gained confidence throughout his life. Early in his life, he had complications with his vision, and so he had thick-rimmed

The subject of this biography aim to fill in a specific gap in Truman life that other authors may have found boring or unimportant. Donald describes her book as “more inclined to interpret Truman’s life psychologically than other biographers of the president.” Which personally I am confused on what that means but she does emphasis on her own depiction of the “Pickwick Pater” letters that Truman wrote to himself during the time of the Kansas CIty political machine.

Media plays a huge role in today's society. Media, in its many forms, can be very persuasive and can change how people view a certain topic. The past few years, media has greatly affected how people feel about topics such as: gay rights, abortion, racism, and anything political. Depending on what site, or source you are on, media can depict the topic you research however it wants. It has been argued that there are political bias in media, which is not wrong. You can find just about anything in whichever political view you want. When talking politics, there are multiple media outlets that are party-based. Even in print, you can find just about anything in favor of what you believe if you look for it. Media does a fantastic job of manipulating people to believe certain things without the audience realizing it. The media provides constant information about politics, and in more times than not, political rather than professional. In this lesson, we learned about liberals and conservatives and how political parties can be affected through media bias and public opinion.

“Television is providing some sort of compensation for the social atomization that it itself has contributed to , and thus , all the simulated conviviality , while being a pleasant “dream,” is “pure wish fulfillment,” indeed, rather “phony,” and, perhaps, sad”(315).

The media in American society has a major influential impact on the minds and beliefs of millions of people. Whether through the news, television shows, or film, the media acts as a huge database for knowledge and instruction. It is both an auditory and visual database that can press images and ideas into people's minds. Even if the individual has no prior exposure or knowledge to something, the media can project into people's minds and leave a lasting impression. Though obviously people are aware of what they are listening to or watching, thoughts and assumptions can drift into their minds without even realizing it. These thoughts that drift in are extremely influential. The massive impact

Barbara Ehrenreich expresses her utter distaste for television in The Worst Years of Our Lives based in the 1980’s. Ehrenreich writes numerous assertions in regard to television’s unrealistic portrayal of every day life. She raises a valid argument when she points out that TV watchers will never see the commonplace facets of human life depicted on their TV screen. Instead, they watch shows filled with fake people, plastic smiles, ungenuine conversations, and unrealistic tasks all combined into a program that epitomizes the way in which we don’t live. Television distracts people from actually living their lives so instead they live vicariously through TV shows, wasting their lives away.

2. I believe that the role of media could cause an individual to not know their true self, because when the audience is really into the show it encourages the people who make the show to keep making it even if the person on the show doesn't benefit from it. Yes, I do believe the audiences are weak and they are unable to resist the power of the media. I believe this because on The Truman Show you see the audience and one of the waitresses at Truman's bar knows everything about Truman and when he got out a lot of people were saying "He did it!" and they were al happy that he got out but not very many people were against him even being there. Yes, people are manipulated by the media, and they

The “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato represents the differences in the way we perceive reality and what we believe is real. In his story, Plato starts by saying that in a cave, there are prisoners chained down and are forced to look at a wall. The prisoners are unable to turn their heads to see what is going on behind them and are completely bound to the floor. Behind the prisoners, puppeteers hide and cast shadows on the wall in line with the prisoners’ sight, thus giving the prisoners their only sense of reality. What happens in the passage is not told from the prisoners’ point of view but is actually a conversation held between Socrates and Glaucon (Plato’s brother).

Circuses and amusement parks deal in pleasure and distraction. They offer a break from one’s otherwise mundane and commonplace life. Beale is suggesting that television, even news programs such as his, are a sort of parallel to this concept. Nothing seen or heard on television is real; it is simply made for the amusement of the viewer. Beale conveys this by supposing, “Television is not the truth.

When Truman goes to embrace his Father in the scene, the camera slowly zooms in to Truman’s face to show his expression. This zoom on Truman’s face is done to enhance the viewers experience while watching “The Truman Show.” In the scene Weir shows that sound that appeared non-diegetic was actually diegetic and zooms in on Truman’s face when he his embracing his Father. The shows the theme of voyeurism as these are done to enhance the viewers experience is secretly watching