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Last week we considered impeachment cases in US history, examined the limits of executive privilege and began to analyze the role of media in American politics. Consider our discussions, the film Wag the Dog, the article Media Manipulation at http://www.globalissues.org/article/532/media-manipulation and your knowledge of current events for this week's blog.
Summarizer the article in a detailed paragraph
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Answer TWO of the following questions using specific examples from the film and modern politics:
•Does media reflect or shape/inform politics in the modern world?
•What role does the media play in shaping American political and cultural perspectives?
•Is the media's role in American politics an anomoly (unique) or can the media be argued as a prime mover of politics and public opinion in most modern democracies?
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Summarize the article "Cohen criticizes Wag the Dog characterization" at http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/23/wag.dog/
In a detailed reflection of 8 or more sentences compare the Clinton scandal with the one described in the plot summary of Wag the Dog appearing at: http://www.eslnotes.com/movies/html/wag-the-dog.html
The media is not always the most reliable source. One source of information in which backs up this theroy is an article written by Anup Shah called media manipulation. In the article it states that often both knowingly and unknowingly the press will release political propaganda. The article list some techniques used by governments and parties/people with hidden agendas. Some ways that it is possible is to pay journalist to get there versions of stories out. Also the government parties or individuals can contract PR firms to sell firms. The PR firms will then feed the stories to the press.
ReplyDeleteI feel that media definetly reshapes the news. I feel this way because the media is coming from a person with there own ideas and theories so when they project thethe news it has hints of there opinions in it.
The media plays a huge role in shaping the political perspectives of people. Especially in this time when technology is so influental. We have televison,radio,music,movies etc. in which young people love. All young people like myself who are just starting to pay attention to politics and are gonna have to vote soon for the first time are gonna be influents by the media. Such as the internet and commercials.
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In the article “Media Management, “it talks about how the media can manipulate anything in the way they want it to go. They can manipulate anything through professional public relations, and covert and overt government propaganda which broadcasts propaganda as news. In the article is says that the impact of public relations cannot be underestimated. Also, it discusses that in this world the media is needed to make any type of product known. In propaganda purposes, it can also help sell a war. The media can turn anything into what they want. The government has different techniques to manipulate things to go the way they want. Some of these techniques include paying journalists to promote certain issues, Governments and individuals contracting PR firms to sell a war, and PR firms feeding stories to the press without revealing the nature of the information. The media also uses smear tactics to destroy a person’s reputation. The media can also produce fake news in which, organizations and journalists working for public relations firms or a government department have produced news reports. The media most definitely affects politics in the modern world. For example in the film “Wag the Dog” by making up this fake war in Albania and making that fake video that caused an uproar in politics. The media’s role in shaping American political and cultural perspectives is that it can manipulate things to destroy people’s reputations, sell war and promote certain issues. It can smear an official’s reputations during elections to persuade people to vote for the person they want to win.
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Media Manipulation by Anup Shah is about how the media is manipulated in many ways. Two ways are through professional public relations and disguised and conspicuous government propaganda. Propaganda then easily turns out to be news. This article explains how propaganda used to expose war can be helped by professional public relations. They can help sell a war. Media is also used to promote specific political policies and/or beliefs. The media is basically being used. In the article, ways of which government manipulates the media were used. Such as paying journalists to write about certain topics, the government contracting public relations firms to sell and put out a war or any other issue they feel should be overt, falsified information or partial information given without sources of their origin. Then another way is probably the most affective, when public relations firms feed stories to the press. Certain proven cases of media manipulation were also presented in the article.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the media both reflects and informs politics in the modern world. Based upon the film Wag the Dog and the article I can conclude that the media not only reflects what occurs in politics but informs the world as well. The media is the first to let the word out when something happens. They also share their opinions on things. Talk shows definitely are a big part of reflecting and sharing political information. The role the media plays in shaping American political and cultural perspectives is the informer and persuader. The media has a true sense of persuading the people to making decisions. For example during elections, public relations firm’s are manipulated into the production of ads for people who are running. The perfect example is the film Wag the Dog. In this film, the media is used to cover up or stir the public’s attention from the accusation of the President sexually assaulting a “firefly girl” to some made up war with Albania. The media has the ability to make politics but more so report and make known all the details of any story.
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ReplyDeleteThe CNN article was on Cohen’s perspective of wagging the dog and Clinton’s attacks on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clinton attacked Afghanistan and Pakistan to deflect the attention of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. These attacks and the calls on the military/navy were all distractions of what was really happening in the Clinton administration. Cohen was a republican senator that believed that the media ate up whatever the Clinton administration gave them and the people believed anything the media gave them without question; therefore, the “wag the dog” came into place.
ReplyDeleteMedia shapes politics in the modern world because the more press on an issue the more people value the issue and want to learn more about it. If there was little press on the Monica Lewinsky scandal less people would’ve paid attention to it. The media shapes American’s perspectives by giving both the good and bad of a situation while emphasizing either the good or bad. The more you hear of one side the more likely you are to agree with that side. The media’s role in American politics isn’t unique because mostly everyone has access to the news and can be persuaded by what the media is emphasizing, whether in America or other modern democracies.
Darlene Akanmu C Block
The article, Media Manipulation, talks about the media being manipulated in several ways. The media can be used to start a war, make a war look bad or just point blame at any country. This is called media propaganda. According to the article, the media pays journalists to promote issues. The media also feeds any story to the public without revealing the true intentions of what this information will be used for. Media has been used for years for sensationalism and only now people seem to be catching on to all their tricks.
ReplyDeleteMedia really has many different shapes and forms. Their are the serious news stations that tell only the important things and leave out the "boring" stuff that won't get them good ratings. This form of media is used to scare and inform people about the issues going on at the moment. More recently however, their are other more comedic news stations that report the news in a more interesting way. The point being that their are several different news medias out there and some shape the news to be all scary and serious. Other shows (like The Colbert Report) reports the more lighter side of the news but still can tell the whole story.
Their are several different opinions on just who exactly keeps the wheels turning here in America. Some will argue that the working class is the backbone here but if that's true then the media is the brains. The media tells us to jump we will say to which country so we can attack it, or to which of the two competing candidates. This isn't for anyone to think all America is just following whatever the news tells them to. Our opinions on certain things however, definitely depend on the media. The news anchorman whose been reporting the truth for all our lives can one day go on and say "Hey Albanian terrorists are planning to attack us." We don't know if this is true or not but why would someone we've trusted all our lives lie to us now. We will accept what the news says and the next thing you know we've got troops in Albania.
I think the media does what it has to do to survive. People don't want to watch the news to hear about some cat that was stuck in a tree or something, they want interesting things on wars and what not. Wars don't happen everyday though. What happens when it's a boring day here they have to report something good or risk losing viewers. In the end, it really depends on how desperate the media is for money and viewers. How America reacts when watching the news however, well that's their own problem.
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In the article Media management it states how the media and manipulate any situation. The media manipulates situations from public relations, covert, and overt government propaganda. This propaganda is then broadcasted as news. Media also promotes specific political policies/ beliefs. Ways of getting information released is paying journalists to write certain topics and issues. Yet there can also be false information given or partial incomplete information and no direct sources. The media turns your information into their information. They find any way they can to manipulate the situation. Different public relations firms are contracted to sell a war, and these public relations firms feed these stories to the press while withholding some information. The media can use its techniques to make or break some ones reputation. That is where I agree the media does affect politics in the modern world. In the movie “Wag the Dog” they presidents people create a fake war with Albania. They feed this information to the media to get the focus off the president’s mishaps with the firefly girl. This fake war causes the poles to increase for the president’s election. The media can shape the views of the American perspectives. The media can make peoples reputations or destroy them, promote issues, and sell war. The media merely makes the reputation of others.
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Media manipulation is part of the job description of the commercial and media world. This, when used correctly can manipulate or persuade to join the side of the representing commercial product. this has been done for many years and is something that wont change in the near future. Sure enough there must have been at least a few "fake news" to buy in a group of people. Though the motives may be different, Americans see much too much of these propaganda filled material on television - which is hinted to be the perfect way to actually shape American views.
ReplyDeleteMedia has a lot to do with how politics can turn out in the modern world. It may not lie, but stretching the truth can be an effective way to a mind.
Medias role to the U.S. 's government/political process is very powerful. Thats why there's so much money put into public campaigns and advertisements.
The article, Media Manipulation, describes how the media affects reports of the news. The media shapes and informs politics in the modern world in multiple ways. Smear Tactics is one example of how news can be distorted and fake. Smear tactics on the Internet this would be called “GoogleSmear” because individuals can fabricate quotes to an entire story and be completely false. This technique can be used by an elected official to “inform” citizens about his opponent and create lies turning society against them to make the person running for an election more favorable and gain popularity. In today’s world, news can be found on the Internet and on television readily, which makes media’s influence greater than people who just read a newspaper alone. The government is able to create stories and release those stories to the media. Reporters can tell it in their perspective, which can alter or affect how the public responses to the story or even that was the intended idea to have the public sway to their side.
ReplyDeleteThe media’s role in American politics is a primer mover of politics and public opinion. In the movie, Wag the Dog, a spin-doctor named Brean asks Ames, a women working for the president, “ What did television do to you?” She replies with “It destroyed the electoral process” Ames is conveying that the media has a powerful influence over the public and destroys the electoral process because of the way reporters and commercial campaigns affect people’s decisions to vote for a certain person.
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ReplyDeleteThe media plays a large role in shaping American politics. The media can make or break a political leader in the time it takes to air a news report. In Wag the Dog the US president was almost not re-elected because it was reported that he was accused of sexual misconduct of a minor. People always believe that what is reported is true, but as seen in Wag the Dog not everything reported is true. In fact, the fake war that was reported and all the attention it received won the president another term.
In the modern world media shapes/informs politics. The media digs up information on political leaders and then reports them to the world; although, sometimes they exaggerate a little when reporting, and they air it as breaking news until something bigger happens. Like in Wag the Dog the firefly story went to page twelve when the so called war in terrorism in Albania occurred. In the US a few years back the same type of scandal that happened in Wag the Dog happened to former President Bill Clinton. When the news finds a good story they run with it until they find a better one, and they don’t care if it’s true or not as long as they have a source backing up what they are saying.
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The article about Media Manipulation the media will make up or twist things to make a story more interesting. The media will get information from a source that may or may not be true, but as long as they get their story and get people to listen to it they don’t care. People in media will do anything to get their story, and the harsher their article is on someone they feel the more readers they will get. If a story breaks that will ruin or hurt the career of a political official people in media will all try to get that story first. For them the worse it is for the political leader the more it will further their career.
In the article "Media Manipulation" it describes the tactics used to control the information that is broadcast by the news.Media management and Public relations have a strong impact on marketing and advertising to sell their opinions. Their influence is so intense that it can be used to promote political polices and ideologies or even sell war. Such things can happen when PR firms feed stories to the press. Smear tactics involves lies and manipulation to distort the truth and often used to destroy reputations.Sometimes the government or PR produces fake news reports which are presented to be broadcast by news stations as factual news by journalists making the news report sound genuine. With all this propaganda filling the minds of many people this actually shapes and defines the views of Americans.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion i believe that the media shapes politics in the modern world. In the film "wag the dog" it describes how one lie after another can completely cover up the true story and buy using the media its changes peoples perspective. In this movie the President had a sexual relation with a minor days before his re election with this in mind the spin doctor made up a whole story about war wit Albanian and this hid the truth from Americans and won the president another term.
The media can be argued as a prime mover of politics and public opinion in most modern democracies because it makes a great impact on the public's decisions. Politics use the media just like how many companies use advertisements and infomercials to sell their products convincing customers to believe in their product and to buy it. Politics use the media to buy their way into the public's opinions to pursued them with their ideas of a democracy.
Samantha Wong C Block
In the article "Media Manipulation", the media manipulates the public through many forms. Some ways they can manipulate the public are by public relations (PR), covert, and overt government propaganda which can create the news as they want the public to believe. They can create news segments that are credible and believable enough by pushing political agendas and propaganda. Public Relations can be involved in propaganda in times of war, which the PR firm can indirectly contribute to the event and have unavoidable casualties. Some of the techniques the government uses with hidden agendas include paying journalists to promote certain issuses without the journalist acknowledging it or without the media mentioning it, governments and individuals contracting PR firms to sell war or other important issues, disinformation or partial information reported as news or fact without contributing sources that might be questionable, and PR firms feeding stories to the press without revealing the nature of the information with the intention of creating a public opinion.
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•Does media reflect or shape/inform politics in the modern world?
I think the media shapes politics and tries to cover the bad things about them that would turn the public against them so they can still run for office in the elections.
•What role does the media play in shaping American political and cultural perspectives?
The media's role in shaping American political and cultural perspectives is that it manipulates the truth to ruin a politician's reputation, by selling into war and promoting war, and other issues.
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The article “Media Manipulation” discusses many forms of how the media can manipulate a countries people. The media is a very powerful thing and can make people think a certain way. The media can be used to discredit or smear a person, politicians, or a war’s image. The media can even be used to sell a war to its countries people. These types of tactics are called propaganda. This form of media is used in almost every war. Propaganda includes posters, commercials, trends, and even songs. All of these things were shown in the movie Wag the Dog. The article states that there is corruption in the media. This means that journalists are paid by the government or outside parties to promote or cut down certain issues. Media outlets at the end of the day need to sell and will do anything to do so. Even if this means twisting a story and taking quotes out of context. The people in the media take bribes and are not perfect. All in all the article discusses how the public wants to read interesting stories. The media will change a story to sell it to the public so they will be interested. This article reveals that the media is not 100% trustworthy and you really shouldn’t believe everything you read.
ReplyDeleteThe media does shape politics in the modern world. Any scandal can kill a person’s political career. In recent years many politicians have resigned and left office because of scandals. Jus recently the governor of New York has been accused of things that threaten his future in politics. The media can spin any little story about a politician to make you think whatever they want. Even former governor Spitzer was forced to resign because a sex scandal was discovered and was spread by the media rapidly. The only reason people will ever find out about things such as this is because of the media.
The media plays a big role in shaping political and cultural perspectives. People vote for certain politicians based on what they hear about them through the media. Politicians are elected via their campaigns. These campaigns are broadcasted all over TV and radio and are then written about in newspapers. Depending on what people read or hear about the politicians by analysts and journalists can decide a person’s opinion. During campaigns politicians even make commercials to make their opponents look bad so a person would think twice about voting for them. The media shapes peoples cultural thinking the same way. They start can start fads or even fashion based on what celebrities do. The media is a very powerful tool when it comes to manipulation.
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In the article " Media Manipulation", it explains how the media can influence readers by making and/or twisting a story around to make it seem more interesting. People usually focus more on bigger and more interesting stories. Television, journalists, and more, help to create bigger and better stories. Each story helps create a personal or political opinion. The media helps shape political views. In the movie "Wag the Dog, the media helps cover up a story about the president.
ReplyDeleteI believe media both helps shape and inform politics in the modern world. The media likes to stir up situations but at the same time pass along information. The media in several ways can change the views on many topics. For example, presidential campaigns. Commercials are a great way to get a point out.
Media plays a large role in shaping American Political and Cultural perspectives. Television, music, and more help shape peoples lives. People are a product of their environment. If they're always watching television, and listening to a certain type of music, they're prone to do what they see or hear. The media can twist many stories to make it seem like its based on others opinions just to win over peoples views.
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The article "Media Manipulation" written by Anup Shah states that the media is manipulated in all manners through professional public relations (PR), and covert and overt government propaganda which disseminates propaganda as news. The impact of public relations can't be underestimated. In the commercial world, marketing and advertising are typically used and needed to make people aware of products. When it comes to propaganda for purposes of war, professional public relations firms can often be involved to help sell a war. Media management may also be used to promote certain political policies and ideologies. Some techniques used by governments and parties/people with hidden agendas are paying journalists to promote certain issues, governments and individuals contracting PR firms to sell a war, disinformation or partial information reported as news or facts, and PR firms feeding stories to the press without revealing the nature of the information with the intention of creating a public opinion. In March 2005, there was revelations in the mainstream about fake news. David Miller said, "This is the age of the fake. We live in an era where the gap between how the world is and how powerful interests try to portray it has grown dramatically wider. Virtually nothing in public debate these days is free of the virus of fakery..." That quote is basically saying that everything you read/hear nowadays is most likely fake. You can't have anything happen in the world today without something being fake about it. Public relations firms feed stories to the press without revealing the true nature of the information, which causes a public opinion. The whole article is basically about manipulations that go on throughout the media business.
ReplyDelete#1. Does the media reflect or shape/inform politics in the modern world?
-In my opinion, I think the media does a little bit of both. I believe the media shapes and informs politics in the modern world, but at the same time I believe the media reflects it as well. The media enforces everyone's opinions on everything, especially politics. Everyone has strong opinions on politics as it is, and the media just increases it. The media can enforce people's views on a political leader and it could change the way democracy feels about a political leader. In the movie, "Wag the Dog" it proves the point that the media shapes politics because everyone listened to the fake stories the characters made up.
#2. What role does the media play in shaping American political and cultural perspectives?
-The media plays an incredibly big role in shaping American political and cultural perspectives. People base pretty much everything off things they see on television or the internet. People would listen to anything they heard on TV or on the internet, even if it wasn't true, they'd believe it. Cause that's the affect the media has on people and their opinions. The media has a very strong impact in shaping political and cultural perspectives.
"Media Manipulation" by Anup Shah is a stunning article describing government tactics to use media as a means of brainwashing. Does the media make politics or simply report it? This baffling question must be researched indebt before a conclusion can be made. For decades, the media has been feeding consumers with propaganda, coming from the governments of our nation, and other democracies around the world. This concept was depicted in the motion picture, “Wag the Dog.”
ReplyDeleteAccording to Shah, media management and public relations firms are paid titanic sums of money because they have a strong impact on commercialism, marketing and advertising. Politicians and government officials seem to have the idea that if these firms can sell false information to the public, the public will soon believe this data to be fact. Some tactics used in the past has included paying journalists to report on an issue, feeding news to the press, or distorting truths to mislead the public. The media is a powerful form of communication, often times called the fourth branch of the government. News, reporters, even pictures and videos can be faked so well, that it can sometimes be impossible to test their legitimacy. “This widespread use of fake news, we’re talking thousands of stories a year. This is a billion dollar sub-industry of the P.R. industry has been going on for 20 years, and this is the first mainstream media expose of any length and depth about it,” said John Stuber.
The media can be seen as an oven. Just like cookie dough isn’t an actual cookie yet, information doesn’t become facts until they are baked by the media. In “Wag the Dog,” crimes can be covered up through lies. The media was used as a tool to distribute lies to the public. Fabricated news became distractions, while the President of the United States could cover up his pedophilic actions, days before his re-election. The movie also shows how propaganda can be used so voters can favor one politician over another.
In addition, the media shaped the culture of its viewers. In “Wag the Dog,” celebrity opinions were important in shaping the views of Americans. Celebrities and idols shape the culture of their fans, and since the media captured the perspectives of people’s deities, fans are being sold this culture. There is much deceit in politics, media, and even democracy as a whole.
Oscar Lee
The article “Media Manipulation” by Anup Shah discusses how the media will change facts and lie through their sources just to make their story seem more interesting. The media is manipulated through public relations, and covert and overt government propaganda, which then spreads propaganda as news. Public relations firms help sell a war through the use of propaganda. Some techniques used by governments are paying journalists to promote certain issues, governments and individuals contracting public relation firms to sell a war, disinformation being reported as news and real facts, and finally public relations firms feeding stories to the press without revealing the nature of the information with the intention of creating a public opinion. So these can all be seen as methods that the media uses to shape politics in the modern world. The media has used propaganda for years to shape the press and to change individual’s opinions. The media controls the American political and cultural perspectives in the world today. The press changes everything and individuals believe everything that they are told. The media manipulates and brainwashes, the media can influence a country to start a war and they can misinform a country by telling them that a war is already going on that they are involved in.
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“Media Manipulation” by Anup Shah is a very descriptive article that discusses how the government takes advantage of the media to take control over people. Journalism always questions the media’s reporting system. One question that has arisen numerous times is “Does the media make the news or report it?” It has been a while now since media had began to rise above journalism and newspapers by using propaganda and information that they receive from the government. “Wag the Dog” is an amazing motion picture that vividly reflects upon this question. In the article, Shah says that loads of money is paid to the media. Since commercials and advertising on television has had an effect on people, the government uses media for its own purpose. In the movie, it clearly shows that the media can easily fool the people by falsely creating their own news. Many citizens easily fall under the impression that is it is on TV it is true. This goes to show that the media shapes the peoples decision based upon voting. For example, the Watergate scandal was knows as one of the biggest scandals ever attempted. How do we know for sure if it was really a scandal or not? The media said it was a scandal so everyone believed it. Even though it was a real scandal, individuals need to rely less on the media. According to Wag the Dog, everyone relies on what the media gives to them.
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The article, Media Manipulation, by Anup Shah explains how the media is affected and manipulated in many ways. The tactics used by the media shapes and makes the American politics. Media stories are twisted and exaggerated in order to seem more appealing to the public eye. Which is a form of propaganda. This type of propaganda is create and reported by journalist that they pay to catch the readers/listeners attention. These type of reporters are called spin doctors, which attract the public by distorting the truth. The media has the ability to create an allusion of war as illustrated in the article. In “Wag the Dog,” crimes are covered up through lies. The media was used as a tool to distribute lies to the public. Fabricated news became distractions, while the President of the United States covered up the allegations that were against him , days before his re-election. The movie also shows how propaganda can be used so voters can favor one politician over another. In “Wag the Dog,” celebrity opinions were important in shaping the views of Americans. There is much deceit in politics, media, and even democracy as a whole.
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The CNN article, Cohen Criticizes "Wag the Dog" Characterization is about Clinton's involvement in the Monica Lewinski scandal while he orders troops in search of Osama bin Laden. As Clinton continuously focuses on the foreign conflict with Osama, lawmakers criticize his actions by saying that Clinton is using the military and Osama to distract the public from his own domestic problems. Defense Secretary William Cohen then argues that lawmakers are basing their criticism and accusations on the newly released film known as Wag the Dog, a film about political figures using a fake war as a political ploy. Cohen states that under no circumstances is the President using the army for his own personal needs. Unfortunately, this doesn't do much for the President's need for more troops after the bombing of two US embassies and the USS Cole in October of 2000. Congress refuses to send in more troops for an invasion of Afghanistan, so the invasion never occurs. Then Commissioner John Kerrey complains that the US should have gone through with the invasion despite a lack in troops. Cohen responds saying that an invasion of its small size would have been unheard of, but Kerrey then responds, saying that it's better to try and fail than to not try at all.
ReplyDeleteThe Clinton scandal and the one described in Wag the Dog have their own set of similarities. First of all, both movies are about a Presidential scandal concerning sexual misconduct in office. Secondly, in both movies, the Presidents are supposedly using a war to distract the public from their scandals. However, the difference there is that the President in the movie is using a "fake war" for that sole purpose while Clinton is supposedly using a real war with Al-Qaeda. Another difference is that, in the film, the President is suspected for fraud by the FBI while Clinton is suspected by GOP lawmakers. Finally, the biggest difference of all is that the President's "fake war", in the film, actually succeeded in getting the President re-elected. Clinton's real war with Osama, however, didn't work. In fact, Clinton was almost impeached because of his scandal. In conclusion, both scandals appear to be similar at first but end up completely different.
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The article “Media Manipulation” discusses how the media influences the public’s way of the thinking. The media has control over manipulating you to think differently about situations having to do with public relations, covert, and other government propaganda. Mentioned in the article as well, are Journalists who are paid to write on certain issues in order to get topics broadcasted on news, etc… Although journalists are being paid to get stories out, these stories do not promise the truth. The information can be distorted with no direct origin. Media has a great effect on the modern world. It has the ability to change perceptions on little problems but more importantly, on bigger problems. Mostly when coming to the government, the media offers you nothing but fabrication.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie “Wag the Dog”, The Spin-Doctor also known as Brean creates a fake war with Albania in order to increases the president’s poles after his mishap with the “Firefly” girl.
The media shapes the modern world. Especially today, Americans and other countries feed off of the media and wait for new dramatic things to happen. The public believes everything there “suppose to believe” because realistically they have no control over anything in the government. The public finds comfort in knowing we have security and that everything is under control. This is why I believe media would try and manipulate society in the first place. If we didn’t believe that the government was under control there would be rebellion, chaos, etc…
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ReplyDeleteAfter the movie “Wag the Dog” was released to the public similar problems in the movie were happening in reality. President Clinton was having sexual affairs with a woman named Monica Lewinski. Soon after his affair, President Clinton launched an attack on terrorists in Afghanistan and Sudan. This attack was made on the same day Monica Lewinsky, Clintons alleged “ex-partner”, wrapped up her testimony in front of grand Jury. The public habitually assumed that the president was doing this in order to save his Presidency, not for national security. Cohen, a Republican U.S senator now knows as the defense post stated, "I put my entire public career on the line to say that the president always acted specifically upon the recommendation of those of us who held the positions of responsibility to take military action and at no time did he ever try to use it or manipulate it to serve his personal ends.
Katerina Mitilineos
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