In class today Dr. Casey put up picture of students from the Middle East holding signs in Arabic, the last sign to the left stated "Live Free or Die". When we were discussing with our peers I really did not believe this was real, i thought that the media had "photo shopped" the sign to mean something less serious and more of a joke. This immediately made me think of the website my dad introduced to me where you can pick a picture and Photoshop it to say what you want it to say then you can email to anyone. Because these pictures look so real, it is hard to see that this is fake. This is an example of how difficult the media it to understand what is real and what is not. I question everything I see on the news on in magazines or advertisements.
“The media is a part of the event, they are part or the terror.” This was such an interesting quote. To me this means that the media glamorizes an event good or bad, causing more publicity, which brings on fear or terror. This is what the news does every day they take an event and they make it a big enough deal about it causing an up rage. Then in class when we talked about how “terrorists” themselves do not primarily provoke real material damage, but for the spectacular effect of it. The media makes terror and fear over people worse by showing a bad event in the worst way, causing everyone to feel at danger. I would have never noticed that a lot of stories in the news, media, magazines are not real unless I took this class where I studied the underlying meaning that this is what the media is trying to enforce on people; a world of drama, danger, and insecurity.
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It is great that you look at the news with such a critical eye. It is true that you can never really except something to be real without further investigation.
-Starfish
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