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Media and politic


            There is no way to know exactly how much of an influence the media .
             have on the political world and the public's perception of the political .
             world. The media comes in the forms of newspapers, radio and most .
             importantly television. Most often times each form of media has a different .
             representation of a certain topic. These representations can be skewed .
             very easily by pictures, personal opinions and editing. This leads to .
             misunderstandings by the public but the public is also to blame for them .
             as well. The consumers allow the medium they use to alter their view on .
             certain topics. A well-informed consumer would do their best to get many .
             different sources of information, whether it be different television shows, .
             newspapers or radio shows, and after gathering both or all sides they .
             make an educated decision about how they feel about the topics at hand. .
             It is as much the consumers fault as it is the media's for the .
             misinterpretations. Being There is a perfect example of how the public .
             takes the information they are given about a person/subject and .
             elaborates on it and determines how they feel on the biased and possibly .
             untrue information. I intend to prove that the general population are often .
             easily persuaded by the thoughts and views of others.
             In both the video and book versions of the story Being There by Jerzy .
             Kosinski, Chauncey Gardiner is an ordinary man with no education. The .
             only source of information was his television and garden. Through these .
             sources he learns about life and death and common etiquette. Chauncey .
             is then kicked out of his house, in which he has never left, and on a walk, .
             a car hits him. The woman in this car is EE/Eve Rand the wife of Mr. .
             Rand who is an affluent political leader and very good friend of the .
             Presidents. EE/Eve gets the impression that Chauncey is well-educated .
             and informed about politics simply by the way he dresses. This shows .
             how people assume many things just because a person looks a certain .


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