Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Assigned Entry #2 Slanted Reporting

While watching the news have you ever wondered if all that is true? One gets so into what reporters are informing that it makes one completely believe what they are informing us with. As you go on watching the news one channel can be reporting one side while another new channel can be reporting the other and you can't seem to understand which side has a point. Reporting one side of a story stands for slanted reporting. People have no idea about this reporting happening. Reporters have their own opinion on the situation they encounter, and sometimes they add their opinion into what they are reporting. Slanted reporting is media which consistently reports news that is not accurate or is intentionally distorted. 

In this video the guy talking is mentioning how Fox News misinterpreted a Obama's story of gas prices. Fox News said that Obama was asking Eric Holder to investigate whether the oil companies have manipulated through fraud the rising of gas prices, however the real story was that gas prices are surging to four dollars a gallon, the story is Obama solution to break the back of rising costs is to have attorney general Eric Holder form a task force to examine allege fraud or manipulation of the oil markets. Basically what Fox News was doing is that they were blaming the oil companies for fraud. 

Fox News is one of the news channel's that has been using slanted reporting most often. They tend to tell one side of the story instead of telling everything at once. But they do so because there is a time limit being on air.  

In this other video from second 27 to minute 3:06 Fox News the Reporter cuts Obama off right when he was about to say he can DO what he exactly just did but Fox News said he's not suppose too. They just gave the side they liked to hear. 

3 comments:

  1. I really do believe that fox new is the number one on slanted reporting. They take the side, they want their audience to believe by only presenting one side of the story or trying to emphasis one side. Good job overall on your blog post!

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    1. Yes I believe the same thing as well. & thank you

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  2. I prefer to get the news from the Internet, usually I read newspapers from Italy, or the rest of Europe, and it is so surprising how sometimes the news are so different. It takes time, but at the end is worth, because I don`t feel manipulated

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