How to detect media bias/propaganda, and media empires

How to detect media bias/propaganda, and media empires

We are living in the media world. Every day we have seen some commercials, news and so on. It is big influence to us. Sometimes, it is good but bad effects to us in general. We have to own critic eyes to the media and study about how to detect media bias/propaganda, and media empires.

The power of the Media could possible the entire world closer than ever before. We can know different countries news in real time through media. A lot of people can feel sympathy to different countries news easily. So the more develop media world, the more people can show same news and they believe it is always real. This situation can explain through mass psychology. The video ‘war of the world’ is a good example of this situation. So many people shocked when the announcer said the Martians landed on earth and attacked us. It looks like a real. Announcer is also pretended real and broadcasted some urgent scream. But it was not real. It was just an event before Halloween. The video ‘outfoxed’ is also good example of this situation. This video criticizes the fox video. Fox video’s owner is Rupert Murdoch who controls the news and sometimes distorts that but public hard to realize. The reason why they are accustomed to mass media like fox news.

It is very difficult to detect media bias, propaganda, and media empires. As we saw ‘war of the world’ and outfoxed a lot of people believe media totally. Therefore, first, we have to realize that media is also just someone’s point of view. Media is not the absolute truth. So we have to criticize media as like neighbor’s opinion. Second, we have to see some media information through comprehensive mind. It is possible to make a different opinion about one event. Therefore, we should hear different ideas about one event and we estimate comprehensively.