usionment as well.
             From Churchill to Hitler to the former Soviet Union, it is quite clear that radio, television and newspapers have the power to change and make history. A clear example of the power of the media was when Orson Welles made his famous radio broadcast about "witnessing" the landing of a spaceship full of hostile Martians. America saw that the power of the media can appeal to the public easily and cause mass hysteria (Williams 25).
             Noam Chomsky, an established political thinker and magazine editor, stated in an interview in 1990:
             If you follow mainstream media with great care and skepticism and approach it with the right understanding of how propaganda works, then you can learn a lot. The normal reader is fooled in to believing the propaganda that they are being fed. The media shapes and selects the events and offer their biased opinions to the mass audiences. The media modifies information to fill what they believe the public's interest is. (Szykowny 9)
             The media feels that they should act as a "watchdog". This causes many of the ethical problems among the media because they assume the responsibility of keeping a check on the government, by acting as governmental critics, governmental experts, etc. The media digs, probes, and snoops in governmental affairs which eventually leads the media to speculate and create rumors while they are trying to expose corruption. This "watchdog" attitude of the media creates the idea that the government is evil and must constantly be checked. But, according to Lisa Orr, "Nobody checks the checker" (63).
             John Silber, a critic of the media in 1988 said:
             The reporter's work should be like a pane of glass, flawlessly clear and unspotted, through which the reader might view the important events of the day. Today, the practice of "personal" journalism in news reporting has persistent...