Mass communications and Digital Media

Mass communications and Digital Media and Convergence

Amber Keefe

Governor State University

Professor L. Savage

MCOM 2520-01: Intro to Media and Society

September 11,2018
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Over the years the Media has been accused to show some biased when it comes to getting

a story across. One example that gets people talking is how the law enforcement is shown in

media. People either feel that the media is only showing the bad cops, while others feel that they

are finally showing how cops really are. In one article that I read Police Brutality: Through The

Media is an article that talks about how media finally shows police brutality. The author talks

about how the media is an important outlet to express the important issue. Another article that I

read stated a important detail, and that was it all depends on what outlet is showing the story. An

article on Enotes.com stated “The media portrayal of police officers as negative or positive

depends on which newspaper, news magazine, radio, or television new program reports

incidents”,

Other way that the media can show a unfairness is when they show campaign ads.

According to one article it labeled out which new station was more favorable to one side.

According to the article "Groseclose concluded that most media organizations

aligned with the views of liberal politicians. (Groseclose determined that The

Washington Post’s “slant quotient” was less liberal than news coverage in the

New York Times and Wall Street Journal.) according to a political science and

economics professor at the university of California .

I read another article and it talked about how news articles painted Israel in a negative

light, when a forage emerged of an Israel defense forces soldier shot a wounded and disarmed

palesinian terrorist. According to the article New York time and The Washington post ran no

more than sixteen stories about that set incident. Because of how these news articles write stories

they give people an impression of certain types of people.

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Net neutrality is important because it has the government regulate the internet. And must

treat the internet the same and not to discriminating or to change because of the different user,

content or website platform. Also the US isn’t the only using net neutrality, its becoming popular

with other countries. Only a few countries have net neutrality, it still being developed in

countries.

Some people argue that net neutrality can be a bad thing, that the government should not

have control over the internet. But other people feel that it is a good thing to have the

government monitor the internet. Under president Obama presidencies they had some of the

toughest net neutrality laws. “ ensuring that telecom providers would have to give free access to

all sites, at the same speed, to all consumers. Though this may just seem like common sense, it

was also a direct effort to rein in ISPs, which had been misbehaving up till then”. (Fergus

O’sullivan)

According to another article net neutrality has another benefit. According to the article

net neutrality can help protect someone freedom of speech. “A second advantage of net

neutrality is preserving the freedom of expression and the freedom of speech. If a site has

material that a person finds offensive then that person is free to not look at that site. Likewise,

any group is free to express any level of distasteful outrage against another group’.

(occupytheory)
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References

Cassandra. (2015, December 9). Police Brutality: Through The Media. Retrieved from

https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cassandramaria/2015/12/09/police-brutality-through-media

Emerson, S. (2016, April 4). The Unfair Media Bias. Retrieved from https://www.aim.org/guest-

column/the-unfair-media-bias/

List of Pros and Cons of Net Neutrality. (2015, April 15). Retrieved from

https://occupytheory.org/list-of-pros-and-cons-of-net-neutrality/

O'sullivan, F. (2018, March 7). What is Net Neutrality and Why Is It Important? Retrieved from

https://www.cloudwards.net/net-neutrality/

Media and Culture Mass communication in digital age , writing by Richard Campbell,

Christopher R. Martin, Bettina Fabos.