News Media and Society Project

The News and its Effect on the World <Tab/>The media plays a major role in everyone's life. From the time we wake in the morning and catch the news or the traffic report, until the time we kiss our loved ones good night, we will encounter the many different elements of the media. The power of the media today is extremely overwhelming. The media influences the world and our country …

…presenter through the use of rhetoric or just the data that was selectively presented to the intended audience. But people's slightest reactions in turn can affect the media's presentation on the issue. After all it is a harsh group of critics that one is trying to appeal to, therefore it is really a delicate ever-changing balance between the desires of people and their hosts. Perhaps the Internet is our last hope for News sans sensationalism.