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Assignment 2B

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I learned that Main Streamed media news stations, based on their political views seem more bias to that side and in the way their new stations news is presented to the world. Government swayed news stations see to cover things up, focus on the politics and make things on sided. The worst the story is made out to be the more ratings and money the station gets. On the other hand, Alternative independent news stations talk about the affects on the community, want to show you both sides as is and politics aren’t the main focus. I looked an article about a boy that was friends with my brother’s and lived in our neighbor. I knew the story already he set a mattress on fire but tried to put it out before it got out of control. Then the police arrived and two of them died and I knew what Main Streamed media stations were already saying, it was all over the news and papers. He was portrayed as a monster, that he set the mattress on fire on purpose. He was a troublemaker and he deserved max time for his crime. While on Metro news, the little news paper you get in the train station a newspaper just to read while on the train said he was a stupid kid and he doesn’t deserved to have half of his life taken away . It was the building fault for leaving the mattress and the officers fault for not following emergency protocol. Main Stream and Alternative news have different point of views when it comes to how the news is given and perceived.

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Assignment #2B

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Corporate interest in a nutshell, is the interest of a company or commercial, which is beneficial to them through the use of empowerment and control. Basically corporate interests control what may be posted in the media, through large companies such as Fox 5 News, ABC News, or the New York Times. These various big companies receive quantities of views, and ratings since they are under corporate interest. Corporate interest effects the information we receive, by us receiving possible biased information. For example, information on Fox 5 News about a given issue, may not reveal the whole story..they may bias their own information, to get more ratings. Since corporate interests include a more political and governmental point of view, the public cannot be viewed as directly as they should be.

An example of an independent article infers how the public would not be the main source for information on an issue. In “ACLU Attorney: Growing number of murders of Trans women can’t be separated from Anti-Trans Laws” by democracy now.org, it is stated how recently a trans-woman was shot. She was shot by her mothers ex-boyfriend who also called her “the devil.” This article used attorney Chase Strangio to explain why murders are occurring. Unfortunately, Strangio concludes that state officials believe “that treating transgender people’ constitutes material cooperation with evil…under Affordable Care Act.” Sadly, due to bias to any information from anything government related, state officials must have also influenced transphobic people to act out. If treatment to trans-women or even trans-men were fair, this would not happen. If their own issues were displayed as positive, and they were portrayed as the good people the public knows them to be, maybe people wouldn’t get the idea to murder them. A Fox 5 News channel say, would not have included this story that may appear to be publicly controversial. Or maybe they would cover it by backing up the state officials, distributing bias to them.

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Why Is the US Aligned With Saudi Arabia?

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When I watch the news  these days, I believe that media is  always mentions one part more than the other for many reasons. Politics controls everything that we get directly or indirectly. After I read an article talks about “Why Is the US Aligned With Saudi Arabia?” which explains the relationship between USA government and Saudi Arabia rulers like  “oil men to oil men” that proves to me why the US government could not really do anything about the situation  in Yemen. The Saudis are fighting Yemeni because they are worried that the Houthis, who rose up in Yemen, are close to Iran. Many of the conflicts plaguing the Middle East today have been exacerbated by the Saudi-Iran enmity. Saudi leaders see Iran’s policies as part of an expansionist, sectarian agenda aimed at empowering Shia Muslims in the region at the expense of Sunnis. Iranian leaders attribute similarly sectarian motives to their Saudi counterparts. If Saudi Arabia was not favored to USA government, it will not keep the war years without finding a better solution.

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Media influence on information

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The daily information we receive is often tinted by corporate influence in such that sometimes we wonder if we should trust many news agencies. The fact that a lot of news agencies are financed by big corporations or are themselves corporate affect the veracity of the information that they report and the investigative journalism that they provide. The conflict of interest that arises between corporations and news agencies makes the readers question the sources of the information. For example, recently we have seen a lot of coverage of the protests against the Pipeline project in North Dakota, but we don’t know exactly the big players behind the project. “Democracy now”, which is an independent news agency reported the interest that big banks and corporations were financing the project even though they claim to help the protection of the environment. As the report indicates, after an independent investigation by Food & Water Watch, how these corporations are investing a lot of money for future profits; this information was not reported by big news agencies.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/new_investigation_names_wall_street_banks

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Assignment 2B

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Corporate interest effects the way we receive information because it eliminates the authenticity of news stories. According to this article called “Corporate interests and their impact on news coverage” it was said that the newspapers and television stations have not always gave the full story on news stories. It is sometimes altered or certain information is withheld. When it comes to corporate interest it’s a lot about things like politics and good reviews/ratings for news media sites. In order to find the most authentic new stories you most likely have to read independent news sites. An article on AlternativeNews.com that I read talked about the 9/11 attack and about information that has been withheld from the public. “The Daily News” newspaper or CNN news channel have never brought this to our attention. This article “Physicists: Overwhelming evidence all three buildings during 9/11 attack were controlled demolitions” states that “the only logical way that the three towers could have fallen in the manner that they did during the attacks was if they were controlled demolitions. The independent news site continues to give us the unknown information while the newspapers and television stations tend to focus on just corporate interest stories.

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Assignment #2B

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Corporations are infamously known to portray facts or opinions in a different light in order to give themselves an advantage in the market. According to Aidan Lewis of BBC News, such tactics can be dated back to the 1920s where the auto industry used jaywalker as “a term of ridicule against pedestrians crossing roads” (Lewis) at the wrong place. Jaywalker was originally defined as a countryside person who would stop at every attraction they see. It was changed in order to “shift the blame for pedestrian casualties from drivers to walkers”. This ultimately caused many to hate citizens who jaywalked and started the love of automobiles. Since then, the term is defined the same way and rules have been enforced to prevent jaywalking.

There are various events that news channels such as Fox 5 wont air because of company interest. Jason Walker of the Truth out, an independent news website, discusses a topic that will most likely never see the light of day on other sites. His article “Unpaid labor in Texas Prisons is Modern-Day Slavery” talks about how prisons abuse prisoner rights. Because the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is one of the most profitable prisons in the nation, they would most likely be able to pay any notorious news channel a hefty sum to not air this event. If they did decide to air this event, they would perhaps find a way to make it seem like the prisoners deserve the treatment they received.

Sources:

-http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797

-http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37470-unpaid-labor-in-texas-prisons-is-modern-day-slavery

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Assignment 2B

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There is definitely corporate influence in news. The corporations not only avoid having the news networks working with them saying anything that might compromise their company’s image.  I read an article called, “Media Undermine Democracy by Speculating Wildly about Undermining Democracy,” by Adam Johnson from a website called commondreams.org where Johnson shows some outrageous claims made by news networks in regard to the presidential elections. He explains that the stories going around that Russian hackers will compromise the validity of the results of the presidential election are almost entirely baseless claims. The reason why news network are putting light to stories such as these is because they know that people are getting into anything having to do with the election because of the presence of Donald Trump as a candidate. If any candidate wins there will be an uproar for recounts and chaos overall because of a story like this. People will believe that the elections were hacked and that will give the news networks more stories to cover on the election well after it should have been over.

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Assignment 2B

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I believe that there is bias on everything. The media tries to focus so much on one side. A lot of news channels like Fox News, CNN, etc. tend to lean towards one side. You don’t really get an opinion on both of the sides of the story. Currently the news has been focused on presidential campaigns, especially focusing on Donald Trump and all his opinions about immigrants. Corporate Interest affects the information that we receive in another alternative. As we receive information from one another, it could be either biased or unbiased.  It depends on what kind of news (ex: Abc 7, Fox 5) or a source that we receive the information from. The media is trying to persuade us from one individual to another with their opinion, it may be spread around with different answers as a positive or negative sign on one topic. People believe that everything that they see or hear on a news channel is reliable information. The media wants us to believe that everything we see is true and they try to  persuade us into changing the way we view certain things.

Information that we receive being it bias or not has the effect of corporate interest. The media companies, due to their corporate interest to gain, sometimes changes the true meaning of the information being send across. Some sources try to make others look good, while others try to make them look bad. Certain media will make sure Donald Trump is looked as a “actual” good candidate but that is bad bias behavior for the people. Since Donald Trump has so much control, he can control the information that is put out there with the power of money to make him look good. Regardless the presidential campaign is for the people, and should stay for the people, so they should be given the right bias information in the media.

In response to the article, “Critical Thinking, Deviant Knowledge and the Alternative Press”, written by Thomas Eland in a newsletter in December 2004 for the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, I agree with the author’s assessment of the necessity for having more of an alternative press assessed view of the world in order to have a more balanced, and well-informed society. In turn this would create more of a democratic, more “hands-on” approach in making decisions dealing with our government.

I confirm that the manner in which the media is now set up is biased, simply because it only offers a one-sided view of their corporations’ interest collaborated with the interest of the major advertisers. An example of alternative news vs. mainstream media is written in an article, “These Students are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States”, written by Rebecca Nathanson for Act Locally on November 15, 2015. The article is shown on the website www.inthesetimes.com. This article addresses the fight for Americans to go to college for free, and how Bernie Sanders has taken up this cause. I have not heard about this in mainstream media. The mainstream media didn’t really talk about this.

 

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Assignment 2B

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Drug addiction and drug use is one of the most debilitating thing that is crippling our nation and people. In my estimation people from all walk of life is affected by it. Yet, it is a plight that is hush, hush in society and in some ways have placed on the back burner. Take for example the rampant and open use of heroine that has escalated in the Central Park area- a place where families visit to spend recreational time with their children. One can safely say that truly people have lost their minds and conscience also because of this madness.

Yet I was truly amazed as I compare and contrast two articles dealing with the drug use subject. Fox News. com elegant heading said “Drug use in America: What the numbers say”. While the independent Sullivan News. com outright heading said “Defeating This Enemy Called Drug Addiction.”. Same topic yet one certainly gets a different emotional response. Main Stream Media – Fox News in my opinion soften what is a plight while independent Sullivan News in my opinion unashamedly called it out. As I continued to read both articles, Fox news used words such as “disorders” or “substance disorders” when addressing  drug use. While independent Sullivan News repeating referred to the problem as “drug addiction”. What really left me puzzled after reading both articles is the simple fact that Fox News only used Marijuana as the most commonly used drug. While using statistics from a survey to convince the reader that at some point drug use has and is on the decline. Sullivan News on the other hand went in depth to speak about heroin and it’s effects and pain killers. The article continued to speak about the effects of drug use and addiction that lead people to jail, commit crimes and even murders. Same topic yet the Mains Stream Media cushioned it so well that one may barely concern themselves as to the drug epidemic that is sweeping our country. Affecting individuals at different age and walk of life. The question can be asked “How Bias is That?”

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Assignment 2B

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Corporations have been influencing news sources for many years to only feed us information that will benefit them. If a big corporation decides to buy out an independent news source, they can persuade journalists to change their wording to only speak in their favor. This lets a lot of big corporations get away with a lot of injustices as the journalists write about only their accomplishments and the little good deeds that they may do for the local communities. The article I read as an example “Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming?”  was published by the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post was purchased by AOL. AOL has also purchased many other corporations in the past as well. The article defends the use of Nuclear weapons and states that it can be beneficial to the environment. They vaguely talk about how it has killed many people in the past. A mainstream new source would  not defend the use of nuclear weapons.

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