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mass media news articles
The Power of the Media
The mass media plays a significant role in shaping and displaying public opinion as it reports the world’s changes to people. Generally speaking, the mass media role and importance in the USA and in the world continues to develop. Thus, it has several purposes:
1. The mass media gives the information to the public – political, social, etc. It shapes the public opinion.
2. The mass media is responsible for the political stability and balance.
3. It can perform the role of a direct actor.
4. The mass media is reliable for the adequate information.
The mass media reflects the present state of the society and can change people’s opinions in this or that way. It is a powerful source in any society. The mass media have an important role in a modern US society as the basic source of communication. People rely on the mass media as the major channel of information. In other words, the mass media is the basis on which people shape their opinions. Any article or a piece of information has a deep influence on the whole society. The two sources of the mass media power are the government and the power of wealth. These are the major forces that direct the mass media nowadays (Askew 2002, p.204).
In general, the owners of the news media try to make their mass media be political neutral. However, all of them have their own opinions concerning politics, social life or others. Their personal views form the news decisions, so that people receive the information based on the subjective opinion of the elite. The percentage of the personalized material depends on the owner wealth and orientation of the major mass media companies; advertising; dependence of the news media on the information given by the government and the approval of the information sources. The sources of news pass through the filters first for being newsworthy. Curran in his book ‘Media and Power: Communication and Society’ points out that ‘the major media forms are very large companies. They are owned by very wealthy people who have common interests, with other major corporations. This is one of the most powerful filters that influence the choice of news’ (Curran 2002, pp. 278-82).
For instance, GE and Westinghouse are the owners of main TV networks. They are large companies which are involved in the areas of nuclear power. These companies rely on the government, its help in the military research for shaping the basis for their sales abroad. Large media companies usually have a right-wing political bias. To my opinion the mass media in the United States is powerful in influencing the views of ordinary people.
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Dude… fuck Adrian Wojnarowski and his articles laced with hate?
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AgkPPHferwTWp8anNDUdRGq8vLYF?slug=aw-kobe052907&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
This guy needs to get fucking fired. For the past year he’s been posting shit that only pushes his own extreme opinions about players and coaches (i.e. T-mac being a wuss, kobe a cheap-shot artist, Van Gundy being a bad coach, Charlotte coaching staff being useless and “stupid”). The articles are insulting and completely one-sided with no justification. I like kobe, and obviously i’m biased too, but i would never try to defend him on things i can’t defend him on, but these attacks on him by Wojnarowski (someone who has a lot of communication power) are wrong and it’s so easy to tell that he hates kobe. It’s fine to hate a player but god damn leave it off the mass media so it doesn’t influence other people’s perception of a person, especially when it’s that mean-spirited.
damn im fuckin glad that there are at least some intelligent people out there that cant be bought with hearsay or slander. its seriously refreshing.
FUCK adrian wojnarowski, ive been reading all his articles this year and i have the same feelings about him pushing his biased opinions as u do. he should be writing for US magazine or People magazine where it is ok to cite a source as “an ex kobe bryant associate.”
the same issue is being touched on here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al5qkkdbFFUGdZ6OuZwsMktVxQt.?qid=20070529103721AAbsft7
anyways, props to the original poster for putting this up. wojnarowski needs to be fired and is too pussy to let the public comment on his articles (steve kerr columns are enabled so that people can leave feedback. at least the guy takes it like a man) because he knows that he would be finished if his employers read what kind of feedback he gets.
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