Today in class we discussed the fact that journalist censor the material they cover without even knowing they are doing it. The news has become all about ratings and popularity and less about sharing occurrences in the world. News stations choose their stories based on what they think people will want to watch, giving them the highest ratings. In doing this news stations are claiming the power of knowing what we as the public should know and what we shouldn’t. Different news stations may have different standards of what they find to be news worthy but as soon as they see that another news station as valued a story differently they may reconsider their decision not to cover the story. The difference in new stories through out different networks seems to be rather infrequent. This is interesting because news anchors cover stories which can keep their own interest and therefore will keep the attention of the public.
This may be why people tend to find one news anchor that they particularly like and only watch them. Normally people can find one anchor whose interest correspond with their own and their political views parallel. Although news anchors personal views are not supposed to come through their work it is inevitable that it does. Even in picking the stories that they cover some of their intentions become evident.
Personally I get the majority of my new from the internet. Within the internet I normally go to CNN’s website. In doing this I have not become attached to any one anchor. This does however show that my political views are more congruent with the views of CNN and not Fox or other stations.
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Good post. Interesting discussion of the news.
-Starfish
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