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Essay On Media Mirror Society

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Although many argue that there are two ways to approach the study of the relationship between media and society - media shape society and media mirror society -, others believe that media actually do both, shape and mirror society. Scholars, anyways, agree on one point: media present a selected view of the world, with a particular perspective. In this class we have been talking about how media are able to distort news more than once, and we got interested in how it happens. We found out that the process is actually quite easy and fast; therefore, we tried to understand if media are able to distort even news that are breaking news.
Taking as a case study the Bruxelles attack we analyzed the Fox News coverage and the CNN coverage. The first bomb exploded at 8am (Belgian time) and the second at 9 am, when in America was still night. By looking at the two video, we experienced that both CNN and Fox News chronologically started to contract the news in four steps: first, they tried to identify the enemy, and speculate on who was behind the attack; second, they identified the target and the outcomes of the explosions; third, they started to …show more content…

We found out that the answer is, actually, quite easy: power. Since we looked at the Fox and CNN coverage, we briefly researched on the power domain of News Corp and Time Warner, which respectively own Fox News and CNN. News Corp is the largest news and information services provider in the English speaking world. It is largely expanded horizontally and vertically and it is still in expansion. On the other hand, Time Warner is “a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks and film and TV entertainment, uses its industry-leading operating scale and brands to create, package and deliver high-quality content worldwide on a multi-platform basis.” Time Warner is also well expanded both vertically and horizontally, even though not as much as News

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