UAPP225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Joseph Pulitzer, Yellow Journalism, Media Manipulation
19 May 2017
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The mass media are capable of dominating and shaping the public"s thinking about the world, especially the world of politics. We believe others fall victim to manipulation because they are ill informed. Their views differ from ours because of the media"s effect on them. Shared by americans with widely varying political views. Reporters defend themselves by saying they simply serve as a mirror for society and report the news as it is. The media"s choice of stories does define public concerns, but the media cannot dictate the political beliefs of the country. They do however often put their opinion into their stories. The media has grown and the average person in bombarded by news everyday, whereas in the past it could take days, weeks, or months after events occurred for news to arrive. Before 1830 the press had specialized publications to reach elites.
