Year 11 Media
The show “Rock Bottom” uses editing to twist or change Homer’s words around so it makes homer say what the target audience wants Homer to say. It also uses a little dramatization at the end of the segment that shows Homer making advances on the host of the show; of course this is a mock-up, all used to gain ratings.Homer is represented as an animal or pervert to the public, by the media. The way they film Homer having little slip-ups, they turn it into a sleazy thing e.g. Homer falling out of the shower tangled in the shower curtain. The media claims he is sleeping in an oxygen tent because it hei . . .
I think some current affairs television is very influential while others aren’t. An example of where the media has made a “monster” out of someone unfairly is when the media stated that the driver of the vehicle that crashed, killing Princess Diana, purposefully crashed the car. I think they go into a story already taking someone’s side without hearing the opposition’s story. Another example of this is when the news has 24 hour coverage of the Simpson house and the highlights were, “when the garbage man came” and,” Marge putting the cat out, possibly because it was harassed. To me it seems that whoever calls up the show to tell them a story is right. Also it is saying that Homer’s own children do not know whether to believe their own father or the television as the kids have spent more time with the television than they have with Homer. The social comment that this statement makes is that kid’s naivety leads them to believe that because it is on television it must be right. The statement that these actions make about Media ethics is what we have been saying throughout this whole piece, that the Media has gone from being informative, to providing us with a new form of reality entertainment, providing us with things that we want to hear no matter how factual or non-factual the information really is. In my eyes “60 Minutes” provides us with information with hardly any, if not, any bias. I think the media does con a lot of us into thinking that whatever is on television must be true. This show has a severe lack of democracy.
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Rock Bottom, Princess Diana, Current Affair, Homer Bad, homer little, , target audience, |
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