Essays on News media

News These are newly noteworthy facts or information probably not known to the target audience. Stories that make the news are mostly recent and captious to the recipients. News can be conveyed through different media like word of mouth, postal, broadcasting, electronic systems, and testimonies from observers or eyewitnesses in events....

Alex Gibney’s film, “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, ” is an interesting documentation of the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, and how their activities have revolutionized the manner in which democratic nations address secrecy, confidentiality, and the right to information. Based on the movie, WikiLeaks’ mission is...

The media has played an essential role in the history of the United States. People rely on media outlets for news and other important updates. Therefore, there is an implied commitment of trust between the news anchor or writer and his or her audience. For most of America s history,...

The advent of the mass media and its exponential increase in popularity has had significant implications for scientific research, social dynamics, and politics. The popularity of mass media has for instance provided social scientists with the previously unprecedented access to large quantities of information from which they could conduct extensive...

The issue of media bias has been at the center stage of public talks for a long time now.  It is a custom in which media in one way or another gives out stories which are one-sided or in a prejudiced manner. Different people have different perceptions and views on...

In the past: reliance on major news channels In the past, before the introduction of computers, the population relied on major news channels for updated news. The television networks relayed valid information at the top of the hour, with the presenters legitimizing the information through live coverage. The trend changed with...

The Central Park Five Documentary The 2012 “Central Park Five” documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon describes the arrest, trial, conviction and later acquittal of five American youth for the horrific crime of assault, rape, and attempted murder of a female jogger, Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989...

The Negative Impact of Social Media on Relationships The social media platforms have reshaped many aspects of society. Everyone who owns a laptop or any electronic device with the ability to access the internet cannot resist the temptation of social media. The social media networking platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat, Myspace,...

The Importance of Media Literacy The ability to create, analyze, evaluate, access and evaluate media messages of all kinds is called Media Literacy. Today's world people get their statistics in the form of sounds, text and images. We require the ability to understand the different media messages that we see every...

The Influencing Machine The whole discussion on the Influencing Machine majorly addresses the encounters of the mainstream media in undertaking their day to day roles. The Influencing Machine is said to have been started from the time of the invention of writing and will end approximately in the year 2045. It...

Gladstone's book Influencing the Machine Gladstone’s book Influencing the Machine is majorly grounded in the entanglements of the contemporary media, the major issues discussed in the book comprise bias, Objectivity misinformation, ethos and great concentration on war reporting (Oppegaard & Brett,193) She tries to level out the history of mass media,...

In contemporary society, entertainment, pop culture and the media have a significant influence on young children, particularly girls. For instance, some media platforms such as Facebook features models promoting consumption of cosmetics aimed at making girls prettier and happier. Besides, the media creates a notion of self- fulfillment whose attainment...