The Pros And Cons Of Fake News

A recent event that had false information in it is the presidential election. “People have been planting half-truths and outright lies designed for public for consumption forever.” (Woolsey,2016) This is explaining that there has been fake news in the past. This is important because it helps confirm that fake news is happening in our society.

The Flip Side of Internet Fame In this article The Flip Side of Internet Fame by Jessica Bennett, there are many issues discussed in regards to the internet and how it can create instant fame and shame. This article talks about the many pros and cons with the Internet today and the effects it can cause. Although social sigma can be a useful deterrent, “the Internet is loose cannon,” says ethicist Jim Cohen of Fordham University School of Law in New York (Fawcett 579). Internet fame is causing more and more people to become isolated because of shame, rage, and death.

In conclusion, the media always portray things in such a dramatic way. As you can see of what you read off my paper that not everything you see or hear in movies, tv shows or any kind of media is true. We can’t allow the media to over power what’s the true. As we pass from generation to generation, our society keeps getting worse and it’s our fault. I read this quote saying “we blame society, but we are the society”.

In “Fighting Words: Why Our Public Disclosure Must Change” essay by Kelby Carlson, the idea of the media and technology is ruining the way people interact with each other during arguments. From political debates, discussions between talk show hosts, and even extreme arguments on reality TV shows, Americans demonstrate arguing in the most confrontational and aggressive way. Carlson believes that television and other sources of technology, like Facebook, has developed a “word-oriented culture” and made arguments more common to the public than ever (Carlson,

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).

The types of the contents showed by the media affect the mass by a lot, especially since technology today is at the tips of our fingers. Controlled by certain few organizations, with certain types of message, it can manipulate people’s attitude and opinion (MB Oliver, S Ramasubramanian, Jinhee Kim, 2007). “The people will believe, what the media tells them they believe.” – George Orwell, an English novelist has never been any truer with this topic. The dangers of the media are portraying the stereotype group of races with specific type of jobs or roles in the movie, which can largely affect how we as a viewer think.

In the world of media spin, it is not easy to keep one’s own balance. Journalist slant the news according to their ideologist and find source who will back them up. According to Sheila Gribben Liaugminas reporter for the Times magazine, she argues that many members of the news media do not the share mainstream American values. She claims that their collective liberal bias has resulted in slanted news coverage and the manipulation of public

Media in our modern era is the main source of information. What the media reports and says is what shapes our societies views and ideas on certain issues or events. Therefor the media is a powerful industry but sometimes they can be misleading and fickle. In Crocodile Tears Steve Irwin, an aussie icon, is brutally abused and targeted by the media but when he dies the media instantly changes its brutal view into a "heartfelt" sorrow attitude. In Crocodile Tears author Jack Marx uses stylistic features to make people aware of the harsh truth of how the media operates, through manipulation and fickle beliefs they can damage a person image and

By taking a closer look at voter behavior one is able to better understand how and why citizens make certain decisions and ultimately how they vote come election day. During the election period it is common to hear individuals say that they are using their vote as a vote against a certain candidate or that they are voting for the “lesser of two evils.” An important question to ask is, why? Why do so many people find themselves choosing a candidate solely to keep the other candidate from winning a position in office? Many different theories come in to play when faced with this question.

1)Phishing: Phishing is type of method in which the attacker uses the method of sending an email to a user which lets the person to claim a falsely thing through an established and reputed company. Then this email will directly open an website where the user needs to fill up his personal information, bank cards details, passwords and other identifiable things. This website is however a bogus and will capture and steal all the information that the person enters on the page. There can be an increased costs to the company in setting up all the anti-phishing software, setting up new computer programs and etc.

The most important aspect of modern life that Bradbury got wrong was that he predicted society to become ultimately desensitized and that ridding of our favorite aspects of life would fly under the radar. Because of social media and smartphones, citizens have become hyper sensitized to anything and everything. Rather than pushing things away and ignoring all emotion, we freak out and over analyze things that happen, and this is amplified by social media. Rather than becoming desensitized like the citizens in Bradbury 's future, we have become over sensitive and are offended in some way by almost everything that is said or done. We are able to access these things by social media, which is a great platform to grieve in great detail why the thing

The media must be held accountable for any misinformation reported, but they

Their lobby spends money on direct lobbying to candidates, campaign contributions, and in assisting in drafting legislation. The result of these efforts has led to laws such as the three-strike rule in California, anti-illegal immigration legislation, and increased immigration enforcement (Cohen 2015). These policies are inherently malicious and most harmful to minorities while attempting to keep as many people in prison as possible in a bid to generate more revenue to keep their shareholders happy. As such, the elimination of private prisons would effectively destroy their lobby, removing their influence over legislation that feeds off racial

I feel like if there something you watched or heard on tv/media outlets and feel very strongly about it than you should go do your research. The assumption and message of workplace violence to me is crazy because that just makes people question more than necessary. Logically, people already have concerns when introduced to new people or starting a new job but the last thing you want to think about is, “will this person go crazy on me”. It was interesting to read how the media used this to help corporations misled the public of possible employment and economic crisis. Additionally, to my previous comment on how you can’t believe everything you read or see I felt it was geared towards the Halloween candy frenzy.

Carr also comments that the internet makes people more shallow –thus the title of his well-known book. This is because the internet takes away from attentive thinking. The internet constantly bombards its viewers with a lot of varying information and because of this the viewer is forced to multitask and loses focus of any original, contemplative thoughts. This multitasking effect is a key element to the very design and business model of the internet, as Carr suggests in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The faster a computer user can read and click, in other words the more the user can multitask, the more he/she gets to see, and the “more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements.” Thus, in the end, internet multitasking negatively affects users but positively benefits the inventors and marketers.