“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know,” is an infamous quote from Ernest Hemingway. Stephen Glass has never read this quote. Glass is infamous for his fabricated articles in The New Republic. He could have learned a thing or two from Hemingway. Although, journalists could learn at least three things from Glass. The first thing a journalist can learn from Stephen Glass is that fact-checking is vital to an article’s success. In “Shattered Glass,” Glass
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look at is the perceptions and stereotypes that society has about the current offender. Many times, social media is the reason people have skewed perceptions on who is likely to be an offender and who is not. Media’s influence on crime can change what the reality of a criminal looks like to those who are believing everything media says or shows. One example of society being influenced by media is a racial hoax. Furthermore, this is “when someone fabricates a crime and blames it on another person because
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In the movie “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”, the audience is subjected on a wide and multiple ways of advertising and product placement. The whole idea of the film are interesting because it opens up the public and private world of advertising. Seeing the use of product placement and ads in televisions, internet and even in our streets can affect our decision making in purchasing a product. Personally, there are products that I don’t really like but there are times when it is admittedly difficult
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The Media is one of the most influential powers today. It also plays a bigger role than we think we see it everywhere so how do we know it’s just facts and not something someone wants us to believe? In today’s world social media allows us to access news instantly and many don't realize lot of the content is biased. Bias happens even more in politics with all the different political views and parties. It is vital that in our democracy the media, who has a lot of influential power, remains unbiased
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Minorities and Racial Bias in the Media Introduction: This research project is a study to investigate the experience and influence of African Americans and Black Americans in the media. I am combining research that has already been done with my own experience as a minority. I plan to explore how the representation of minorities in the media influences members of the minority. I also plan to explore how other groups view the minority group because of the racial bias in the media. Background and Context of
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get their information about current events through social media or through televised broadcast. The news stations that televise the news are American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Communication Broadcasting Systems (CBS), National Broadcasting Company(NBC), Cable News Network(CNN), MicroSoft National Broadcasting Company(MSNBC), and Fox News. The news they receive though is not always true due to the abundance of news station and social media broadcasting the same news. These stories differ from station
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collective policy --no less stringent a term will serve--sought, by graphic and unremitting distortion, the victory of the enemies of the correspondents' own side." His point of view on the war summarized the effect of media on ending the Vietnam War. To obtain understandable on the roles that media played during this war, it is important to first explore the history of the war. The longest war in the history, a proxy war between those that support communism and those that did not. The United States supported
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Body Image Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their body, and only about 5% of women are actually have the body portrayed by Americans in the media (Hurley, Katie). The idea for women, especially teen girls, to have the perfect look is so surreal. Women, especially teens, shouldn’t have to constantly be worried about how someone sees them, but should always be brought up by others about how beautiful they already are. Body Image begins with the idea of people, mainly women and teen girls
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Gordon, Maya K. “Media Contributions to African American Girls Focus on Beauty and Appearance: Exploring the Consequences of Sexual Objectification.” Psychology of Women Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, 1 Sept. 2008, pp. 245–256. Sage Journals, doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2008.00433.x. Accessed 15 Sept. 2017. In this article, Maya Gordon explores how sexual objectification can hinder and influence girls’ beliefs about their appearance. She specifically focuses on young African American girls whose ideals
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Dog-directed speech is an interesting cross cultural phenomenon covered in both the popular press and within the scientific community. In this paper, I will analyze the difference in portrayal between these two publishing genres. The popular press article on dog directed speech attempts to dissuade readers from using in it by drawing from multiple sources that state its inutility. In contrast, the scientific article attempts to debunk the current mode of explanation for dog and child directed speech
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