The media and the news

Ever since there has been money to be made by telling and informing people of the news there has been a problem. I say this for the reason being that these companies and organizations that report the news can simply tell us whatever they want to; because they know that we will buy into it and listen to what they have to say next. Staying focused to a story regardless of how misguided and skewed it may be, if it keeps our attention we will listen, because the people that report the news know that dramatic stories sell and no one wants to hear something uncommon. As we have discussed in class with all of the stories from Mathew Sheperard to the media taking advantage of the war to sell stories. Unfortunately its not just the media that takes advantage of these stories of brave people that have been killed or murdered because of their beliefs or simply fighting for their country. When the war started up, almost anyone and everyone hopped on board the bandwagon trying to make some money by selling these toy figures and claiming they are “real American heroes”. Once again this is because these topics are very dramatic and once the media and these corporations have squeezed every dollar out of this subject for what it actually is, they will twist and turn these stories so that they are no longer the original story. But it does not matter because we believe the news for they will never mislead us, or at least that is what we believe to be true. Unfortunately this is not true, and at the end of the day the media and these corporations are simply out to make more money for themselves and they do not care if they have to skew the true stories.