Sunday, November 11, 2012

Media Framing everyday life

When we talked about how the media framed the Matthew Shepard case, it really sparked an interest in me and I started to become skeptical of what the media was putting out there.  I started to ask myself, "Is this really what happened?"  There is this picture going around on the internet.  The caption for it said, "You will never see this on the news."  That is very true, and also very sad (that is tea by the way, not something else...).  In my mind, I think that the news is only for sharing the bad things that have happened, not the nice things.  People tend to focus on how negative the world is, instead of seeing the good in it.  I know that HLN and I think ABC News has a segment that is about a happy moment, but it is only about 30 seconds long. That is barely long enough to do an introduction to the segment, let alone the whole clip.  Media framing was bound to happen when there started to be over 10 sources for news.  They have to differentiate themselves somehow, other than by political affiliation. I just don't see why every piece of news has to be bad or be misleading.  I know that not every news channel is like this, but the majority are.  They aren't reporting on instances like this, or of other cases like this, they are reporting on why Obama drank a Pepsi and what that signifies.  It's dumb.  Maybe he just prefers Pepsi over Coke.  NOBODY CARES.  This is what I would like to see more of: People rescuing other people from robbers, interrupting a mugging, saving someone from a burning building, GOOD policemen, politicians who fight for the right thing, not just being paid to do so. It is ridiculous how much hatred there is in the world, I do not think anyone is blind to that, but why not show more faith in humanity?US soldier shares a drink with local man.

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