Videotape In 1994

For example, many people have their favorite tv shows recorded or playing, and if the president or a government announcement came on many of Americans would just flip to their favorite show or recording and not pay attention. Also the news is always on CNN and FOX and 21 Alive and etc, so many of us just ignore those channels so we don’t have to watch them. Many people don’t watch those channels because there is always some politic problem like the recounting votes for Donald trump becoming president, and there is always sad stories about bombings, children abduction, shootings, etc.

Don DeLillo’s Videotape explains the story of how a young girl videotaped a gruesome crime of the Texas Highway Killer. DeLillo immediately wraps us into the footage of a young man being videotaped on a highway from the car in front of him. The tape is so innocent, so real, and footage is raw and uncut. DeLillo captures our attention and we become obsessed. Without seeing the videotape we can picture everything; we can feel what the little girl feels. In a split second and a jolt, the man’s life comes to an end, which draws us in even more. Readers and viewers become addicted to the footage because of the thrill they receive. As DeLillo states, “…it’s on all the time, they show it a thousand times a day. They show it because it exists, because they

2. In the 21st century exposure to media is an everyday event for most of us. Even at the grocery store, we see magazines and newspapers with eye-catching headings that may not be true. Also, the news is everywhere, and with technology on the rise, we even get news alerts on our phones. The media has taken over society. Most of the stories we read about seem to be true but in reality, are they giving a true insight of what is actually happening? Some of the stories cause people to become blindfolded from reality. This is because the stories that people read or see have a profound impact on shaping our reality rather they are true or not. We see the news about events that are going on in the world; rather they are catastrophic events or devastating events that were done by humans.

The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. The article “Reality TV Goes Where Football Meets the Hijab”, published in the New York Times in November 2011, introduces how the media controls the minds of the masses. Media has become a major issue in our daily lives. We live in a world that we cannot have access to what is going around us, unless we refer to the media. For instance, in our daily routine we usually listen to the news in the morning or at night before we sleep. The news has already been reported and its being delivered to us that fast, but how do we know if what is being said is what is actually happening or if it has been manipulated for political/social reasons? In the beginning of the article, Porochista Khakpour the author of the article, Iranian born American reared, mentions: “If anything made me, an American, it was televisions.” TV, especially the reality TV, resembles the characters and movie stars the way they want to not the way they are. Khakpour said, "Darkness-dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin-always equaled trouble, as if it actually implied a dark side". When we watch TV, most of the movie characters are labeled, either by their gender, religion, or color. Khakpour reaches out to the "outcasts", to prove her point on reality TV shows shaping our beliefs towards each other, especially the "freaks”.

The broadcast of television and its contents have influenced society as a whole. Whether it being commercials or news incidents, the television covers it all. With the vast amount of information being introduced to a wide span of audience, the television has altered the way a person takes in the given info. Despite all the advantages of the television, it generates bias amongst its viewers and converts their attentions on a certain issue, such as politics, for better or for worse. Although the invention of the television ventures to address political issues to the world, the television manipulates information so that a negative outlook would be pronounced on a particular candidate for a presidential election.

The everyday person is easily susceptible to what the media has to tell. The media can tell us put our focus

Just by looking at a recent event that has been in the news this can be seen. Looking at the recent event from Fox News and the Washington Post of the Orlando shooting the form in which the information is portrayed has an interesting impact on the person viewing it. The video on Fox News was made in a way to keep your attention having details such as including a woman with blond hair to help portray the news, strong emotions partly portrayed through the serious attitudes of the conveyors, and a short length. All of these aspects were put in for a reason, to keep our interest. If it doesn’t then we will simply stop watching it because of our short attention spans. Like Postman would say it was for entertainment. There was nothing about the given situation that could be connected to our lives. The article on the Washington Post however was different. Even though there was still not really anything that could be taken to connect with one's personal life it was not portrayed in quit as enrapturing a form. There were many facts and quotes given by different professionals making it a lot less interesting to take in and harder to keep reading. Even though both news organizations still centered on the aspect of entertainment the different forms in which the information was given gave a different turn on the similar information

How can we determine what’s real? “The mass media were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror” was once said by Dominic Strinati (1992). The short fiction, “Videotape,” was written by Don DeLillo in 1997 published in one of his novels Underworld (1997). The themes of postmodernism and how the role of mass media forms false representation, resulting in changes of the meaning behind events, is centered on the story “Videotape”. The impact of media attracts the society to postmodernism with the obsession of violence.

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

Video. Video is a word that anyone in the 21st century hears almost every day, whether the video comes from a security camera, video camera, or cell phone camera. However, in 1994, modern video cameras were still in boom after emerging in the 1980’s, and this is when Don DeLillo wrote about a video camera use gone wrong, with a much deeper and darker meaning underneath it. Don DeLillo wrote “Videotape” in 1994, and it represents the faults of videotapes used by the current media and how exposure to events like those in the story cause a shift in human emotion.

Each day we eat three meals a day, sometimes more. We listen to music, drive in our cars, or play on our high-tech computers. Some may pick up the newspaper, but other than those few words on the page, the American population is living a life of excess. Excess that is at the expense of other people's lives. The American people take pride in the capitalistic democracy that is a model for the other countries, but they forget to watch the government. They don't even know what their government is doing. For years now people on the street curse and wish death upon the Saddam Hussein. He has been given titles such as the devil's son because the media has told all of the horrible things he has done. The media has

This simple question yields so many complex yet startling responses. The media depicts the world we live in today as a cold and heartless place going downhill. Every single day we hear of injustices happening around us. Injustices such as poverty, racism, sex trafficking, and abuse (both physical and verbal). We feel a profound sense of sadness for the individuals that these injustices have affected, but we continue on with our daily lives because in reality these injustices do not affect us.

The video was very interesting. Watching this video made me realize that I tend to think ignorantly. I do not watch the news personally, however my roommate always has it on in the morning and at night. For this reason, I do hear some news, but what I tend to hear is always frightening and alarming. Hearing the news makes me think that there is only bad things occurring. I think one of the four rules is our own personal bias. Which is our different experiences derived from communities and school. Our personal bias is an inaccurate reflection of the world because everyone has completely different experiences. The media tends to focus and expose the bad things going on. For example, we tend to think that poverty is a major factor and it is a

In 1985 nightly news networks averaged about 48 million viewers and in 2013 the newsnetworks averaged about 24.5 million viewers, an all-time low for these networks according toCNS news. While these networks were losing viewers, reality shows such as Survivor, wegaining viewers with a rising 27 million and only increasing every season. Sandra Bullock, aworld-renowned actor and philanthropist, once said, “I’m not a fan of reality shows, but I am afan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to stealsomeone’s man or get drunk on TV.” She’s stating that she would rather see us use ourintelligence to do good in the world and try to make a difference instead of partying and foolingaround on television to please and influence other people. People are becoming more and moreintrigued by these shows and are completely forgetting about news itself which isn’t onlyterrible, but sad. People need to keep up with what’s happening not only in their respectivecountries

Take this for example, the Medias post presence of two of the major hurricanes to hit the United States in the past 10 years. Hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The media show with people on top of their homes. People trapped in their cars and homes. The city of New Orleans were trapped. The streets were flooded. Repeats of looting and starvation flooded two airway. People lost their homes, family, and actually everything and media pushed these stories through the roof. These stories scared us and caused people across the nation, affected people to stop living. Following these disasters, the United States established clear evacuation routes and reestablished local shelters. For example, New Orleans used the Superdome as a place of shelter during Katrina and after Katrina just in case of another emergency. Every hurricane season supermarkets sales skyrockets, people stock their homes for days and at times fill up there gas tanks just in case they need to get away quickly or use the car for heat.