The news is everywhere we look. It’s on television, billboards, sidewalks, and in stores. The reason is because the media is trying to reach a great audience. The audience is the entire world. The media wants to keep you updated on current events and wants to keep you interested in what is going on in your society. The media tries to appeal to all types of audiences and will expose or produce any story to boost their ratings. In the media world ratings are everything. Fear can boost ratings. If the news can expose the fears of people, many people would watch or read about it. People want to know everything. People are fascinated by other people’s fears or tragedies. Why do people enjoy contact sports? They enjoy them because they can sense the presence of death. In Roman times, people were executed at the Coliseum for entertainment. That thirst for brutality still exists with us. The news uses this and other human qualities as advantages to boost ratings. The main purpose or

News in all its many forms is quite useful because it allows a viewer to become knowledgeable of specified events. Whether you are a priest or a soldier the news can help you know what people demand of you to succeed in your craft. The news tries its best to relay the facts about events quickly and efficiently. The news will address any issue that will attract audiences. It just so happens that most universal issues have to do with fear. The speaker we had mentioned that are society in the United States was structured around fear. The United States uses the idea of protecting the common citizen from harm to keep society in order. Fear will always exist. I don’t believe that we will ever be able to forget our fears because the news media will always remind us of them. The media and fear must exist in order to make life work and be exciting. It is human nature to want to know everything, so the news will continue to supply us with information so that we may one step closer to knowing everything.

I noticed that the presentation of the news consisted of a list of headlines and each headline was discussed in a certain time period. There were many statistics given for each headline. The news broadcasters seemed to hold back information for some articles. I felt as if we were only meant to know so much. The types of stories they presented varied greatly. It was as if the news was trying to appeal to many different audiences. I was watching the Bay Area channel 2 News. They began by talking about the recall election and did not give sufficient information about what was said by the candidates. They mainly summarized it because they had a lot of headlines to get through. They focused mainly on the issues addressed in the debate and made the candidates look as if they didn’t know how to attack the issues. They didn’t show any good arguments from the candidates only controversial ones. They then began talking about thunderstorms

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