Among the millions of articles, news stories and facts, written in newspapers, magazines and online every day, there are many that are a product of propaganda and are corporately funded, in the United-States and Canada, many networks and radio stations are owned by companies, Disney owning ABC news and Rogers owning various radio networks.
Even Chuck Klosterman admits in his novel Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs:
“Are media outlets controlled by massive, conservative corporations? Well, of course they are. Massive conservative corporations control everything.”
This draws the conclusion of what I have said before, in the case of networks and papers that are owned by corporations or are dominated by political ideology are “one sided and one sided alone”. Many stories have been written with intensions purely on interesting as many as possible with such things as pictures and interesting headlines but just as an advertisement you spot at a bus stop their intention is focused on manipulating the reader to one side. Buying that particular product or buying a news story. Readers of news papers or websites must use their discretion and reasoning to establish the facts that come out of an article that are on an objective level and the ones that come with strings attached.
Works Cited
-Klosterman, Chuck. Sex Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs. 2nd ed. New York City, USA: SCRIBNER, 2003. Print.
About Me
- Brooklynn
- I'm a first year Media Studies student at the University of Guelph-Humber and have a passion for Journalism which I'm majoring in.
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