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    Media Bias In The Media

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    news/media sites criticize the tragedies and successes of the world before actually reporting about it. You don’t have to imagine this. Its real and it is everywhere. Biased media distorts the real events and changes the way the public views the world. Even some media sources would not tell the truth just to pursue the liberal agenda. Ted Cruz, a 2016 presidential candidate, say “The questions asked in [the Republican Presidential Debate] illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.” Now

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    Dangerous News Bias

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    pundits” reporting on an issue (Garcia). News media rarely provides information unbiasedly, there seems to be some sort of political leaning to almost every news report. Although biased news allows for more perspectives and grants more information to the audience, the extent to which

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    What Is BLM Effective?

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    Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Civil Rights Movement (CRM) are two movements where black people fight for their rights, but is BLM actually effective? BLM is an ineffective activism group that doesn’t achieve their main goal of making more racial justice in America. Although some may think that BLM is effective, it isn’t because of how it hasn’t done much but use a social media hashtag to bring itself into reality. For these reasons, BLM shouldn’t continue because of how it doesn’t get its activists

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    and political issues plaguing the United States. The Black Lives matter movement aims to address the issues of race inequalities in relation to the American policing system which has and continues to employ brutality and the use of excessive force on Black Minority groups which has ultimately resulted in the deaths of innocent black civilians. According to Weitzer and Tuch (2006) ‘Black Criminality’, has become the ‘norm’ in America, with a significant increase of police surveillance, street interrogations

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    on racism in America. Kendi informs the reader that President Trump is unifying Americans in their denial. I agree that the media ignores racism, a point that needs to be addressed. In the article Kendi states, “The more racist Mr. Trump sounds, the more Trump country denies his racism, and the more his opponents look away from their own racism to brand Trump country as racist.” Many people assume that the media provides them with all the important information but the American media usually avodes

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    America was once considered the melting pot of diversity, a place where everyone was treated as an equal and received equal protection from the law. furthermoore the American used to pride themselves on being a country that protects the weak from the strong. it was the land where even the underdog can come out on top; However, recently a group of American’s have been pleading for some change to be made, yet instead of being meet with open arms they are being met with hate and resentment. Those people

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    Citizen Journalism

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    some personification. The journalism nowadays is facing challenges not only from media and technology convergence, but also from audience they serve (Bowman and Willis 2003). For example, in MSNBC’s my MSN part, one can post news by yourself. While the audience are participating in the process of journalism with the aid of the Internet, it cannot be neglected by mainstream media.

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    based on personal experiences? Is it media driven? Over the last year, we’ve had to examples in the media that pertains to this discussion. In Ferguson, MO there was the Michael Brown case involving the shooting of an unarmed man by police officer Darrin Wilson. There was the death of Eric Garner involving the New York Police Department. Depending on what media news outlet you’ve watched, the reader was given different point of views. On some news channels, the media outlets played the role that the

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    Through visual mediums such as the television and the Internet, we are able to assess the livelihoods of those around the globe and absorb information with the rise of 24-hour news outlets. Throughout the years, media outlets have gone above and beyond relaying international political coverage—media conglomerates have begun covering humanitarian crisis, social movements, and popular culture through the “infotainment” channels. With visual mediums, news channels and news outlets are influential in creating

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    The United Arab Emirates

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    The United Arab Emirates is currently adjusting to the balance of modernization and tradition. The United States of America has an important participation in this endeavor.Different beliefs, opinions, and views from people inside and outside the United Arab Emiratesabound regarding the matter involving free speech, media, and trademark laws in the country. The foundation and goal that was set by the UAE government in creating these laws resulted in the similarities and differences of the perspectives

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