Cinamiss
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To what extent are journalists, editors, and the owners of media business to blame for the fact that the average American is often uninformed about and uninterested in politics
I think the total influence of the media can be relevant to an individual's decision to invest effort in political matters. Although political policies hold tremendous sway over matters important to many individuals, journalists, editors and owners of the media can have a big effect on the public opinion.
Many Americans are not interested in the charade of politics due to the media effects. A more interesting question is why do people avoid politics? More often than not, the media will use attack journalism by taking political discussions and degenerating them into personal attacks. When people witness the assassination of a person’s character, they are very discouraged. This is why many Americans tend to derive their political opinions from their own personal experiences. Some people can see right through the priming and framing that goes on when political stories that have taken event are presented and they are turned off by this scandalous behavior. Yellow journalism also has a great impact on what many Americans believe. It is perceived that people with big money control politicians, something that some people may not have. These interpreters of news also give the impression that the ideal system of politics lets essentially everyone in a society do their work and live their lives without having to spend undue effort managing the government. Filtering is another tactic media outlets use to influence how Americans view politics and it can tend to make people think that their current situations cannot be changed and their opinions don’t matter.
Taking information from these sources that lead with anterior motives can impose a certain political belief causing by product of theory. Some Americans will follow what the media says the same the same way some people will blindly follow a religion. What it boils down to is many really don’t know where to stand on some issues because they are exposed to an image which is embedded in their heads by the media of conservatives yelling one thing and liberals yelling another and all of the arguments make sense or none of them make sense. This can be very confusing and lead a person to become indecisive on who they should believe which cause people to not side with any political party, but they do hold opinions on taxes, beer prices, speed limits and other things. These things are in fact the result of political decisions and some people may not even realize it.
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I think the total influence of the media can be relevant to an individual's decision to invest effort in political matters. Although political policies hold tremendous sway over matters important to many individuals, journalists, editors and owners of the media can have a big effect on the public opinion.
Many Americans are not interested in the charade of politics due to the media effects. A more interesting question is why do people avoid politics? More often than not, the media will use attack journalism by taking political discussions and degenerating them into personal attacks. When people witness the assassination of a person’s character, they are very discouraged. This is why many Americans tend to derive their political opinions from their own personal experiences. Some people can see right through the priming and framing that goes on when political stories that have taken event are presented and they are turned off by this scandalous behavior. Yellow journalism also has a great impact on what many Americans believe. It is perceived that people with big money control politicians, something that some people may not have. These interpreters of news also give the impression that the ideal system of politics lets essentially everyone in a society do their work and live their lives without having to spend undue effort managing the government. Filtering is another tactic media outlets use to influence how Americans view politics and it can tend to make people think that their current situations cannot be changed and their opinions don’t matter.
Taking information from these sources that lead with anterior motives can impose a certain political belief causing by product of theory. Some Americans will follow what the media says the same the same way some people will blindly follow a religion. What it boils down to is many really don’t know where to stand on some issues because they are exposed to an image which is embedded in their heads by the media of conservatives yelling one thing and liberals yelling another and all of the arguments make sense or none of them make sense. This can be very confusing and lead a person to become indecisive on who they should believe which cause people to not side with any political party, but they do hold opinions on taxes, beer prices, speed limits and other things. These things are in fact the result of political decisions and some people may not even realize it.
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