Neutral TV

4 Pages 960 Words

The media is not only a subject of great interest in modern American society, but also of greatly polarized controversy. The film “OutFoxed” gives a clear opinion as to what the media should ideally be and animatedly professes its objection to “bias” media and television. The film states that the media functions as the “nervous system” of our country, and if it does not function properly, then the country doesn’t function properly. The film gave an important example of this by demonstrating the media’s influence on our country’s political elections. According to the film, the media has the responsibility of simply reporting “news” without bias or opinion. Despite this, the media can, and often does, choose what to show and/or what not to show, thus affecting the opinions of others on various important issues, such as political elections. Thus, if any system of media were to have a fixed opinion or bias about a certain political party/issue/candidate, it could be used as a powerful medium to propagate the respective party’s views. The film focused primarily on the FoxNews program and its method of reporting the news. It portrayed its owner Rupert Murdock to be very controlling and narrow-minded in his beliefs. It said that his networks have a total audience of 4.7 billion people, and that he uses his assets as a way to spread his strong political beliefs. The film made many citations against not only FoxNews, the Fox Network, and Rupert Murdock, but also against right wing-ism, conservatism, republicans, and President Bush. The film gave many factual examples of Fox’s bias towards those things, but all were from former Fox employees or employees from Fox’s competitors. At first, this didn’t really get my attention. The film was obviously anti-Fox, so of course those against Fox will be on the film. Upon further reflection, I began to think about the nature of bias and its effect on television. ...