יום שישי, 7 בנובמבר 2008

Out Foxed Reaction Essay

The news, a T.V.programe exicting to deliver the people important information about event around the globe that influence the national stability of the world, such as war. What if, someone had told you that all the news cast you hear everyday is just biased?
During English class, we had seen an astonishing video concerning Fox News. In the video, there were very important facts on how the program is running while affecting the sorroundings in a negative way
One of their tactics is to add many comercials to the program. Before a commercial they are discussing about an important event that they believe they viewers would not want to miss. Every six minutes of news broadcast there is a ten minute breake of advertisment. After the ads, they review all the events that were said for not loosong viewrs.
Another disturbing tactic is that the anchors use the sentence "some people say" when it is an opinion of them because thery are not allowed to be involved in such a way that is prsonal. While the anchors argue with the people they are reviewing the usually get into an unegriment and into a verbal conflict. During such a conflict, they do not try to piss the other person off, they simply try to squeez out needed information without them noticing it.
An upsetting fact relating to the anchors of Fox News is that 83% of the anchors are repulicans while 17% are democrats. Most of the anchors are liberal. There is a unique anchor in Fox New, I cannot recall his name thought, that frequently lies during the broadcast but he is a pathological liar and so cannot be sued and continous with his doings.
Reaserching well and giving correct and valueable informatioon is also very important in the news. However, most of the information being presented isn't usually origanal, their quality standard are low, some stories are not well researched and many of them are not really event stories but personal reflections. In addition, the events being told are being chosen weather or not they are interesting enough and being worthy of telling. Regularly, the stories are not even critical or as important as what is going on in the outside world. For examle, the news broadcast speaks plenty of celebrities and their personal life instead of informing us of the severe situation of women in Iraq and how the majority of the women there are drug addicts as a result of their everyday fear of survival and trouble of sleeping when every few seconds there are gun shots.
As a conclusion, the Fox News program cannot be trusted. But, many of the other news programg are being lead after Fox. So, from now on, each time i warch the news I would pay a great attention to the details ant wont believe to everything being said. Later on I would research the information being told by verious resources. Than, I will know weather to believe it or not.

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J אמר/ה...

Good Essay! It is very clear how you have listed the tactics used in Fox News.
However when you say "Fox News cannot be trusted," this might be a little too extreme. I absolutely agree with you that Fox News is very biased TV channel, but that doesn't mean it is lying. Plus, bias is almost impossible to avoid.There is no absolute "Fair and Balanced" news. Does that mean we should not watch news anymore?