“If we learn nothing from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” This quote comes from Sandy Dahl , the wife of the pilot on flight 93. When thinking about 9/11 this quote comes to mind because on that particular day, the world was reminded how short life really is. This quote also intertwines with 9/11 because it teaches us how there is no time to hate, but to move forward and help each other hand in hand. Even though I was only a year old when September 11th happened, I want to understand this horrific event that went down in history of the United States. These attacks were a changing point in American society because it increased the security in American airports, started a war in Iraq and Afghanistan,
Elizabeth Kolbert brings about an argument about polarization, as well as how information is misleadingly presented and misinterpreted on the internet. Koblert explains about internet misinformation, explaining how different authors and researchers have supported the idea of the World Wide Web being a base for unreasoned ideas. I agree with Kolbert’s idea on current interne situation because, as a result of the internet and the propaganda in it, there have been several political upheavals and social status conflicts.
This school is not what students say it is. It is much more than what teachers believe it is. Is way better than the things you hear from the parents. People who has never been here think New Horizons is a school were students are not taken into consideration, where teachers dont have a voice and are threaten as animals. Doesn't it bother you? Knowing everything about a place and having to endure all the bad things people say about that place, especially when they are not true. Hearing people saying bad things about their home, their family. Everyone here talks about the intolerable uses of the elevator while other schools in this country, schools where you pay lot more than what you pay here, don't even have elevators. Everyone here talks
The piece on Salon.com, "The Death of the News", written by Gary Kamiya, had many interesting points to make about the state of the media today. In the article, Kamiya expresses grave concern over the struggles facing print journalism, specifically the fact that if newspapers go, it is likely that on-the-ground reporting will disappear as well.
The media is known for not always having the facts right no matter how high end it is, but still people taken what they say as factual evidence. An example of this was the Boston bombing tragedy. Sunil Tripathi became the last victim of the event when he was wrongly accused of the bombings. this started on twitter when a woman stated that the young man looked like one of the suspects several others agreed. Nevertheless, this news traveled (lee, 2015) “even prompting some journalists (including Digg 's Ross Newman, Politico 's Dylan Byers, Newsweek 's Brian Ries, NBC 's Luke Russert, and Buzzfeed 's Andrew Kaczynski) to spread word of Tripathi 's possible guilt” (para. 2). These rumors harmed Tripathi 's family and maybe even himself, since
Before media, politicians and other newsmakers had to rely on word of mouth to communicate the various messages they were espousing. However, they found this was an unreliable method of communication and the first newspapers and other media mediums were created. This comes at a drawback. As media companies grow larger and larger, they become more susceptible to bias. This has lead to a proliferation of bias across the many media companies in existence today. Media bias has a very large effect on society and most often in a negative way. There are four specific effects that will be discussed. These are, it undermines the public’s trust in the media, it leads to a decline in productive discussion, it can ruin the reputation of businesses or individuals
For many Americans, Trump is seen as the long-awaited saviour of the nation. Others see him as the man to start World War III.
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 161). This statement by Orwell shows that he wrote 1984 as a warning to today’s future as he feared that mass government surveillance and invasion of the privacy of a citizen would become the norm in the future. People have indicated today that Orwell was right to a certain extent as how governments today lead massive surveillance programs . Others have thought that today’s government invades its citizen’s privacy . Similarly, people have also mention how governments censors what it wants it citizen’s to hear. . George Orwell’s vision of the world’s future as revealed in his novel 1984 is similar in the fields of government surveillance, invasion of personal privacy, and censorship.
George Orwell in the novel, 1984, concedes a dystopian society where an individual does not exist and is stripped of their humanity. Where the ruling party and leader, Big Brother, desires to completely subjugate the people. The novel’s purpose is to signify the impact an unprincipled government has on its citizens and way of reasoning. Orwell constructs a pertinent narrative that illustrates the correlation between the present and the future. Through forms of manipulation and censorship such as, propaganda, surveillance, and physical and mental restrictions. Unfortunately, in today’s society, most citizens are fightenly unaware that our country is being controlled by a dystopian regime similar found in 1984.
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The central theme of media manipulation and the consequences of that are explained and uncovered in Ryan Holiday’s book Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. Holiday offers a brutally honest insight into the world of PR and journalism, one that many people can have trouble accepting and one that makes us doubt every form of media and advertisement around us and exposes the twisted relationship between online media and marketing. In the beginning of the book, Holiday admits that he is a liar, but asks the readers to believe everything he says. As mentioned in an article published by Poynter institute, “He has a point to make, but he 's like the addict warning of the dangers of drugs, all the while snorting a line and shaking his head at how bad it is” (Silverman, 2012). It’s a bold move asking to be trusted after admitting to
In our increasingly interconnected society, information could spread from one end of the world to the other in a matter of seconds, via the internet. The importance of accurate and unbiased information could not be overstated. The uncovering of the recent phenomenon - fake news - has caught the attention of many governments and organisations across the globe. Fake news is either news, stories or hoaxes that are created to spread misinformation with the sole purpose of deceiving readers in order to accomplish the author 's agenda (Hunt, 2016). The perpetuation of this fake news problem has created anxiety among politicians in free democratic societies. One example of fake news is in Canada where Nick Kouvalis, who was helping Kellie Leitch as the manager for the Conservative Leadership Campaign during 2017, posted fake news on Twitter regarding the Canadian government (Patriquin, 2017). This essay will examine how posting fake news can influence people thoughts, views, and perceptions without repercussions which will lead to people losing trust and reputation being tarnished towards the government in Canada. This essay will also assess one of the solutions that is implemented by Canada to collaborate with social media giants and utilise their anti-fake news tools and provide an alternative solution which is implemented by other countries that could be adopted by Canada to tackle the problem of fake news in the country.
Imagine a world in which anyone can can access information instantaneously, now imagine that the people in this world that supply the information decide to use this power to spread lies faster than ever, now stop imagining because this world is actually our own. Now that the internet is more accessible than ever people are taking advantage of it to further their own agendas. A very recent example of this is pizzagate, a story about how a little pizza place in Washington DC was running a child sex ring in their basement and that the owner had a criminal record. This story was fabricated of course but the repercussions were awful. If fake news is going to continue to be a problem then we need to find a way to get people to stop people from buying into it.
Everything has a beginning since the generation has changed over time the growth of fake news has too, now it's a lot easier for rumors to spread around, but back in the day's rumors would go around the neighborhoods, but now its possible for fake news to spread all over social media. Fake news is dangerous in so many ways and had affected people's lives. Some people might think that fake news is not dangerous because they cannot tell what's real and fake, they tend to believe what they read to be true without questioning them self and if the source is credible.
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