Takako
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Ambassador from Argentina.
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Post by Takako on Jun 26, 2007 18:40:19 GMT -6
Well, I'm really interested in your opinions about this thread. I go to a school which has orientation in Communication, so I have a bit of formation about it and I'd like to know what do you think. First, mass-media are a fact. We can't take them out of our society. They will be there because the new technologies will be with us since something new appear. But -even if we can take them very very far away- we can learn to receive the information. Second, there aren't, at least in my country, many institutions which teaches the way of the mass-media, the publicity and the information they bring to us (politics, economists influence too), so it's hard to find somewhere to learn how to analize them. Third, what can we do for it? I have some information and I'm studying it, but I don't know how the rest of the people see that. I'd like to share more of my opinions but first I'd like you to say something if you have time  |
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Post by harisstavr on Sept 23, 2007 9:17:23 GMT -6
I believe that mass-media influence us very much,if that is your question. They can say hwatever they want and you can belive them withought thinking that maybe they are lying!
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Post by Ranjith arun on Sept 28, 2007 17:15:54 GMT -6
A very necessary topic takako!!!
Pls suggest things ....
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Post by harisstavr on Sept 30, 2007 10:56:45 GMT -6
I think we should pay attention to what is being told in Mass Media and try to find out the "common truth". I mean that we should pay attention to what is being said in all kinds of Mass Media, in different newspapers and in different channels, becuase that's the only way you can find the truth. Many Media's are cooperating with the parties....
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Post by Ranjith arun on Oct 15, 2007 11:41:38 GMT -6
but I think this MASS MEDIA is one constructive thing which is used for utterly opposite means now a days......
and i am afraid nothing can be done to make it perfect again....
we have defect in the society at this point....
only thing to change this situation is.........
"A SLOW STEADY RADICAL CHANGE IN THE SOCIETY"
so I think, I doubt if it Possible to make the thing right...
unless if people change their views on things......
we have a group of party supporters, questioning and fighting for unnecessary political problems while no one cares for the People who deserve care.
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 22, 2007 16:25:18 GMT -6
The only way to truely understand the mass media (assuming you have serval different companies in your country, like the USA with CNN, FOX, ABC, and NBC) is to view all of them because they will each have their own owner how wants his beliefs to be supported as true and wants anything against his views not to be shown. In the USA it is political, if you only watch one, thinking that that one is unbais and true, and all the others are bais and false, you have already fallen into their hands and are no longer thinking perfectly clear. You have to look at all of them, knowing that they each have their own "slant," and once you figure out what that slant is, you can truely see what is really happening and going on in the world in a completely informed and unbiased way.
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Post by Zach on Oct 22, 2007 18:38:06 GMT -6
Right on Oregon Elephant! There are several extremely-conservative news sources (*points at FOX), and several extremely-liberal new sources (CNN). I think we need to get a balanced view of things to really understand an issue or what happening in the news. Good post  Karma for you. |
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 23, 2007 9:41:17 GMT -6
Right on Oregon Elephant! There are several extremely-conservative news sources (*points at FOX), and several extremely-liberal new sources (CNN). I think we need to get a balanced view of things to really understand an issue or what happening in the news. Good post Karma for you. From my experience, there aren't any extremely conservative or liberal news shows. Typically, TV is a bit off center (Fox leaning Right, CNN leaning left, ABC pretty close to center but a bit left), news papers tend to fall a bit futher away from the center (LA times, NY times, Oregonian) and talk shows are the futherest (Rush Limbaugh, Ed Schultz, Randy Rhodes) from center. Talk shows will exagerate facts, hide facts, and use "facts" that they know come from unreliable sources. But TV news, has it's slant, not from the facts it uses, but from the stories that they put on (they can only put on so many stories, so they have to chose what goes on and what stays off) and that's what gives them their slant. |
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Post by Zach on Oct 23, 2007 11:52:03 GMT -6
Well, I have to say; I think liberal news sources seem to be more in the center than conservatives. I do not like FOX News because they tend to lean to the right, and they do not really give you a clear perspective (middle of the road).
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 23, 2007 12:01:10 GMT -6
Well, I have to say; I think liberal news sources seem to be more in the center than conservatives. I do not like FOX News because they tend to lean to the right, and they do not really give you a clear perspective (middle of the road). It is hard to make a truely good judgement on this, because FOX is different every where you go. FOX in Oregon is pretty good, they tell the stories with the facts and don't put in their interpration or try to "read between the lines," because that is not the job of the news station, it is the job of the individual. But when I've been down in South California, their FOX is pretty bad, I imagine that all the stations very from state to state. |
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Post by Zach on Oct 23, 2007 12:02:24 GMT -6
Well, I have to say; I think liberal news sources seem to be more in the center than conservatives. I do not like FOX News because they tend to lean to the right, and they do not really give you a clear perspective (middle of the road). It is hard to make a truely good judgement on this, because FOX is different every where you go. FOX in Oregon is pretty good, they tell the stories with the facts and don't put in their interpration or try to "read between the lines," because that is not the job of the news station, it is the job of the individual. But when I've been down in South California, their FOX is pretty bad, I imagine that all the stations very from state to state. Sorry, I meant the FOX News Network (on cable; its like CNN: 24 hours a day; that kind of thing). |
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 23, 2007 14:10:39 GMT -6
It is hard to make a truely good judgement on this, because FOX is different every where you go. FOX in Oregon is pretty good, they tell the stories with the facts and don't put in their interpration or try to "read between the lines," because that is not the job of the news station, it is the job of the individual. But when I've been down in South California, their FOX is pretty bad, I imagine that all the stations very from state to state. Sorry, I meant the FOX News Network (on cable; its like CNN: 24 hours a day; that kind of thing). Sorry, I forgot about that, I try to only listen to local news on TV because I care about the traffic in the morning, not Iraq. Part of the thing to look at is why FOX is slanted to the right. They are the only one after all on TV to take this side. It could be that they are just slanted and that's them, or it could be that they are trying to balance out the news. After all, there are many news stations that are to the left, and FOX is the only one to the right (which is why they have more viewers), to be fair, all sides need to be supported, and so a rightwards leaning news station is needed. People just need to make sure they know how bad the slant is on things that they read or listen to before they start to roll down hill. |
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Post by ViCtoria* on Oct 23, 2007 15:39:43 GMT -6
This is what I think about FOX and plz, do not judge this hardly, because FOX is not so popular here and hence, my views are way simplistic : FOX Network --- Rupert Murdoch ---- One of the richest men in the planet ---- Media manipulation surely has been done... Wanted to ask you, oregonelephant, do you consider yourself to belong to any side of a political system? Or remain undecided? |
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 23, 2007 16:14:17 GMT -6
I concider myself a right leaning Populist that isn't well represented by either political side. Usually I find myself agreeing with the Reps more often than the Dems, but in this political race, I'm voting for Obama.
Whether you believe that Rupert made his money by manipulating the news or by being the only right leaning news station so they have the sole support of the some 42% of americans that are Republicans, has no real meaning. The fact is still that FOX leans to the right, and the others lean just as far to the left (accept ABC, I always support that they are only a tid bit off to the left).
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