Day Twenty. Don’t Be Brainwashed by the News Media
Every society and culture has a unique worldview. This worldview shapes what people see and how they see it. It shapes perceptions and beliefs. News media across the world reflect the worldview of their own culture. This is true both because those who work in national news media share the same views as their readers and because they need to sell what people within the culture want to buy. They need to present the news in ways palatable and interesting to their audience (to increase their profits). In the book The News About the News, Downie and Kaiser present the problems as follows:
“All journalists are, by virtue of their handicraft, alarmists; this is their way of making themselves interesting.” ...
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