The power of broadcast news isnt so much that they tell you what - TopicsExpress



          

The power of broadcast news isnt so much that they tell you what to think as it is what to think ABOUT. Your opinions are your own, but almost all of the thousands of outlets draw from the same wells (Reuters, Knight-Ridder, Associated Press). These sources own most of the news outlets in the nation This presents the illusion to the public that since many papers are covering the same stories at the same time, then those stories are what people should be thinking ABOUT at that time. This means that news publishing is likely timed around a political agenda, and it is one of many reasons that Stewart Ewen called them Captains of Consciousness. amazon/dp/0465021557/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3487837279&ref=pd_sl_679738jwbb_ee
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 01:33:28 +0000

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