How does the media mis handle world news?\nWhat is teh filmmakers view on modern day American society?
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I have seen and love the movie Network.  If I'm not mistaken, it was a Best Picture winner, and deservedly so.  Lumet is a brilliant director.\n\nIt was a critique on news media that tried to demonstrate how ratings rule all in television, even news media.  Basically it takes a comical spin on one unbalanced man's realization that sensationalism is more important that REAL news to most news media outlets.  He unintentionally finds a unique way to get everybody's attention and boost his own ratings the day that he finds out that he will be fired the next day.  He takes this newfound publicity and tries to expose to the news media to his viewers as a monster that he helped create.  People begin to rally around his charged speeches. His televised speeches about the evils of news media piss off his bosses at the station, but they keep putting him on the air because he gets such great ratings.  Until one day, their patience limit is reached and they...\n\nI won't spoil the rest.  Go rent it, kid.  It'll be good for you and you'll like it.
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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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News is new information or current events. The reporting of news falls into the field of journalism. News can be reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television and radio programs, wire services, and web sites. News reporting is a type of journalism, typically written or broadcast in news style. Most news is investigated and presented by journalists and can be distributed to various sites via news agencies. If the content of news is significant enough, it eventually becomes history.\n\nTo be considered newsworthy, an event usually must have broad interest due to one or more news values[citation needed]:-\n\n    * Effect (how many people were, are or will be affected?)\n    * Timeliness (did the event occur very recently?)\n    * Revelation (is there significant new information, previously unknown?)\n    * Proximity (was the event nearby geographically?)\n    * Oddity (was the event highly unusual?)\n    * Entertainment (does it make for a fun story?)\n    * Celebrity (was anyone famous involved?)\n\nNews items and journalism can be divided in various ways, although there are gray areas. Distinctions include between hard news (serious and timely topics) and soft news (lighter topics); breaking news (immediate events); news analysis; and enterprise or investigative reporting, in which a topic is examined in great detail.\n\nNews coverage traditionally begins with the "five W's"—who, what, where, when, why.\n\nObjectivity\n\nIn democracies, news organizations are often expected to aim for objectivity: Reporters cover both sides in a controversy and try to eliminate bias. This is not true of all, as some are expected to have a point of view.\n\nIn the United Kingdom, limits are set by the government agency Ofcom, the Office of Communications. Both newspapers and broadcast news programs in the United States are generally expected to remain neutral and avoid bias except for clearly indicated editorial articles or segments.\n\nMany single-party countries have operated state-run news organizations, which may present the government's views. Even in those situations where objectivity is expected, it is difficult to achieve, and individual journalists may fall foul of their own personal bias, or succumb to commercial or political pressure. Individuals and organizations who are the subject of news reports may use news management techniques to try to make a favourable impression.
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I think the bigger issues with our current newsmedia are:\n\n1) Most newspapers have cut their staffs for budgetary reasons. This is true especially in their investigative reporting areas. The result? Almost no investigative reporting like we saw in Watergate.\n\n2) Partially as a result of the above, the newsmedia often simply reports quotes from sources (especially political and governmental) without doing any due diligence on the accuracy of these quotes. So all we get is the PR from the government and other political leaders.\n\nThe only hope I see is that the bloggers in the world will force the mainstream media to take on big questions. Keep your fingers crossed!
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Michael Moore is a very good presenter of films. He does get to the truth. His job is to bring his version of the news to us in a spectacular fashion. I have Fahrenheit 911 and Bowling for Columbine on DVD. Both are good films.
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The "truth" is very subjective and usually a lot more complicated than the media pundits and headline readers would lead you to believe.  Print media in general does a better job of being thorough.  Your best bet is to get your news from multiple sources and critically evaluate as best you can what you are being told and by whom.
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I don't know about where you are from, but here in England we usually have a warning just before the news telling us that some scenes may be upsetting, that is only helpful though if we see the news right from the start. I do think that news like that should only be shown after the 'watershed' about 9pm.
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They got they news about the war at the movie theatre and on the radio and in the news paper. You would get a moive, a cartoon or a short film like the three stooge ,and a news reel. Going to the bbc website and is talk about the bbc in world war 2.
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The American Media is Satan Incarnate. They will eat babies alive if it makes them money. They don't care who they offened, who they make look bad, or the results of what they show. And if you say anything your a violating their "freedom of speech". The American media is more a terrorist than every terrorist orginization in the world put together. I'm black, and according the media, I sell and smoke crack, don't care for my kids, am on welfare, blame white people for me not having a job, and is ignorant as all hell.
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Check out foxnews.com. They did an extensive investigative report on post war Iraq a while back.  Based upon what they found the country is thriving.\n\nAs for the media they look for stories that have two factors.  First the story must have an excitement factor in order to get an audience.  Second it must fall within limits of what is acceptable to the liberals who own the media outlets.  Except for FOX and some local independent papers and news stations most media follows these two unwritten but mutually understood rules.
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How come, a person who is crying because they are scared of what might happen, are calling liberals "wussies"?  \n\nI guess this is what happens when you continue to follow STUPID!\n\nBTW. . .WWJD?\n\nFarzand A:  It is a fact that "ALL MEDIA" is biased depending on ones particular view.  Which is why everyone and anyone should seek as many different sources possible to gain information.  \n\nI check many sources (using the Internet) to see through the eyes outside of this country, as it pretty obvious that every U.S. news station will tend to protect this nation (and it is understandable).  While our constitution states we have freedom of the press, the press is free to report the news as the owners see fit.  It does not guarantee that it has to be reported straight up and with no holds barred.\n\nToday the ignorant stay ignorant by choice, however, stupidity is a Birth Right and no amount of knowledge can help them. . .In this forum it is difficult to tell the two apart, and the whole concept that a 45 is the best solution,  proves my point.
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Hey guys,\n\nI read your comments and agree with most of them, however, since I found this question under the “POLITICS & GOVERNMENT >> IMMIGRATION”, I figured I would stay on subject. \n\nThis is concerning. If history repeats itself (as it usually does) “The Media” can shape norms that provide a strong reaction from the general public, that can eventually motivate many forms of extermination. It can be dangerous when the role of the media is transformed from a neutral purveyor of fact, to a corporate sponsored monster that satisfies the psychotic and pathological appetites of the masses. \n\nThe basis for freedom of press is to PREVENT governments from regulating fact, to impose politically motivated information to the general public, and/or punishing those who surpass those imposed regulations. Disestablishing freedom of thought (via any media type) is the intention of manipulating the media. In today’s news, we are now seeing major corporations taking control of media sources and creating their own precepts and opinions on global and local issues (and yes even personal appearances as stated above). It’s becoming severe.\n\nSo with the oxymoron of freedom of press that we have in this country (and most others) the responsibility falls on the people to sift through the information provided and expose these tendencies. It is OUR responsibility to prevent these influences on the media that can lead to bogus information on very important matters like……Immigration Reform and the present situation our country is facing with the Mexican border. I doubt we will ever know the real issues by watching just the news. We can however guarantee the opinions we have are based upon what CNN or MSNBC has stated as fact.\n\nI suggest reading newspaper articles from other countries on these issues, and using the internet to understand Immigration Law and the legal ramifications of building an  armed wall to keep them out (or if you really think about it.......keep us in!) \n\nBe good guys.\nIt was nice talking with ya.\n\nThanks,\nAndre M
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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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The problem with the media is that it is international and doesn't always act in what is the best interests of our country.  CNN especially says that they provide news for the whole world and are not responsive to any one country.  Efforts should be made of course to keep information related to our national security from this and other organizations that do not feel they are part of US
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Sorry to tell you this....but our media (in America) will say anything to make Americans believe that they are hated by everyone in the world. Also, with the popularity of the Internet most Americans get their news independently of the mainstream media. I find this hate rather hard to believe considering the problem America is having with illegal immigration.\n\nIf this story is true, the criminals will be tried and sentenced, just like the criminals from Abu Ghraib.
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well I saw the video but why there is no mainstream media doing something about it??
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As Stokely Carmichael once said, " Violence is as American as apple pie".  We are steeped in a culture of violent history and socialization.\nYou look at the genocide of the American Indians, our war between the states - that determined where sovereingty lay in the Union, the history of lynchings and brutal oppressions of black Americans on well up into the 20th Century, our culture in its transition from rural agrarian to urban still very involved with guns, - I don't remember much about the film but I get the impression that violence is part of our culture , media and identity.