Is It Affects Me?

about the reasoning she is providing the audience with. In her beginning paragraph, there does

Having served nearly thirty years at CBS News, Mr. Goldberg had earned a reputation as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. However, when he observed his own industry, he realized the liberal media had completely missed their mission to give honest news. After years of sharing his observations and promoting more balanced reportings, Goldberg soon realized that no one listened because they believed they were doing the right thing. The liberal bias continued, therefore Bernard Goldberg decided to take the situation into his own hands and expose the distortion of the media himself. Goldberg’s breathtaking and shocking best seller book, Bias, reveals the close-mindedness of the news culture and their mission to entertain rather than share facts.

She states many of her opinions on how the press should stop telling and spreading false events and ideas in the newspaper. When given the chance she tells her audience journalist about how the American press about her feels and how she feels challenged by them. Overall, the beginning of her speech tells the audience how she is going to state information and how they should listen to

In the study, each source was ranked based on the political leanings of its audience. As a result, it ranked sources such as Buzzfeed more liberal than average while it ranked sources such as the Rush Limbaugh Show more conservative than average. However, none of the sources earned a perfectly neutral ranking (Wormald). The correlation between news sources and their audience’s political leanings becomes interesting when compared to the type of content each news source produces. Rush Limbaugh, for example, is infamous for his conservative rhetoric, whereas Buzzfeed is known for its lighthearted quizzes and comical representation of liberal politics. This reveals something about our perception of truth: biased sources allow individuals to ‘select’ the truth. When conflicting information is pushed to the side, it becomes nonexistent. Subsequently, the sum of partial truths interpreted by an individual becomes a whole truth in their mind, especially when partial truths are reinforced by mainstream media sources such as Buzzfeed or the Rush Limbaugh Show. This is harmful because, as Lewis implied, the entire truth is lost in this process and mutual understanding becomes harder to

Polley highlights the notion of truth and how each individual sees it differently. In her

With social media at the people’s disposal, users are able to share their thoughts and to keep up to date with current events. Its no surprise to find issues trending on social media every now and then; this year’s election was no exception. Politics are without a doubt a greatly debated topic. Millions of post and articles taking sides flew all across social media; some were true while others were not. A supposed satire letter written by author C.S. Lewis became popular throughout social media during the campaigns. Letter is as followed:

As time goes on, social networking sites can influence millions of people without thinking about the consequences. Foer wanted the readers to understand the full impact of Facebook by mentioning that “No other company has so precisely boasted about its ability to shape democracy like this-and for good reason. It’s too much power to entrust to a corporation” (75). The author found it peculiar that Facebook wanted to boast about their success, and the amount of influence that they have. Foer meant by “the ability to shape democracy” is Mark Zuckerberg is allowing Facebook to change the Democratic Party and he does not deny this accusation. He is able to reshape democracy due to the excessive use of algorithms. The people controlling the algorithms are allowing it to pick videos or post pictures that could have social pressures which can influence a person to sway from their original stance. Algorithms should be posting videos at random and should pick related videos if the users asks for it; that way, the user knows what they want and it will be their chose if they want to continuing watching the same videos. Facebook could be sneaky and can be inhumane when it comes to human emotions. Resulting in another treacherous scenario because Facebook does not care, “Whether the information is true or concocted, authoritative reporting or conspiratorial opinion, doesn’t really seem to matter much to Facebook. The crowd gets what it wants and deserves” (Foer 76). Foer mentions something that can be tremendously petrifying to the world and it is that Facebook does not care whether or not a piece of news is genuine on their site. The word “concocted” means made up and Facebook does not filter or check out the sources that make up facts that millions of people read. By ignoring their obligation to check out news like a journalist does, they allow the crowd to get what they want, even if it is fabricated.

In Harwood’s article, he is on the side that media is to blame for the alienated voter, but he analyzes it deeper

Lastly, each article differs in the way they reveal their overall purpose. Cohen’s article, for example, puts his main focus towards defending the craft that he has dedicated his entire life to perfecting, along with manipulating his audience into believing a straw man that he set up in his article. The straw man, of course, was President Trump, and Cohen continuously used diatribe in order to lessen the president’s stature. After Cohen had lowered Trump’s credibility, Cohen used a questioning strategy to manipulate his audience even more into thinking that Trump is on the same path as Hitler was under his rule of Nazi Germany. In the end, Cohen’s purpose was directed at persuading his audience into believing that news outlets such as the

Alice Munro gives a good example of the meaning of this in her story "How I Met My Husband". The theme of this story is under certain circumstances people can sometimes be blind to the truth.

Fitsnews has a small following and prides itself for not hiding strong opinions. With an article titled, “Jim Gilmore Attended A Campaign Event … And Got Something 100 Percent Right.”(Folks) Fitsnews briefly mentioned Gilmore’s low polling and then spent the rest of the article proving why Gilmore’s speech was, “100% Right”(Folks). Unlike the WSJ article, Fitsnews was more objective in dissecting Gilmore’s speech and gave readers a different opinion. Fitsnews may not have the same following as the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post but as a digital source it can still provide many readers with a different opinion despite the fact that Gilmore is polling low. Similarly, the Global Dispatch, another digital media source wrote an article about how despite polling higher than George Pataki, Gilmore was still left out of the CNN debate. The Washington Post didn’t even bother to mention that there may be some controversy surrounding the CNN debate and Gilmore. The article then goes on to quote Gilmore and shows how despite not receiving an invitation he is still a confident candidate. This view of Gilmore sharply contrasts with legacy media’s view that he’s a struggling candidate trying to start trouble by grabbing media attention. Similar to digital media, social media users can voice their own opinions about

The New York Post begins the article by explaining that the fugitive on the run for five years has been captured. The author begins by discussing the charges against Eric Rudolph, and explains how the authorities believed he survived for five years. Throughout the article, bias by source is present with the inclusion of quotes that portray Rudolph in a positive light. In response to the capture of Rudolph, the sheriff at the Cherokee County Sheriff’s department stated that Rudolph was “very cooperative, [and] not a bit disrespectful.” Because The New York Post leans right, the article uses bias that portrays Rudolph in a positive light. Therefore, the addition of this quote sways the readers opinions of Rudolph, and shifts the readers to see

In the article “Radio Conspiracy Theorist Claims Ear Of Trump, Pushes 'Pizzagate' Fictions,” author David Folkenflik attempts to illustrate that Alex Jones uses his influence on the public through media platforms to promote extreme conspiracy theories, and suggests that Jones’s theories elicit negative reaction in the public. Jones, founder of InfoWars, is a well-known conspiracy theorist, and has an extremely popular radio and YouTube format. Among the theories Jones has promoted, Folkenflik draws attention to the “Pizzagate” scandal, a burgeoning theory spread by Jones that lists a top Hillary associate as a pedophilic sex trafficker. Folkenflik implies that Jones’s support of pizzagate sparked a fanatic to open fire in the pizza shop that

“’It matters to get the facts straight…Reconciliation can’t begin without mutual recognition of the facts,’ she said.

To wholly have a grasp on how this new founded approach to journalism has changed alongside technology—as well as understanding the dangers such openness brings forth—one has to understand what exactly those changes are. Primarily, those that are writing for the sake of offering information have, whether willingly or not, fed into the usage of social media as it has become a centralized method of distribution that is relatively inescapable with the current times. As such those framing the news for the masses find an authentic avenue to stay in contact via social media that has benefits ranging from, “its extraordinary newsgathering potential; its potential as a new tool to engage the audience; and as a way of distributing our news” (Eltringham, 2012), all of which are deeply different from the presentation of reporting that occurred during earlier eras. Days of strongly structured instances of journalism that could not travel with such speed have been replaced as, “social media has trashed many of the foundations on