English Composition 1 – Paper#4: Persuasion:
             Nowadays, people never stand still to think about the quality of the information that they absorb. The consuming of daily news has become a very important factor in our everyday lives so that most of us just accept what we read and don't look for anything else. I have time and again found out that there is more to a lot of stories than we would actually deem possible. It is in a way, as an aspiring journalist, important for me to encourage my equals to grasp the situation.
             I feel that everybody is entitled to hear everything, even though this might be harmful to a company or embarrassing to a government. It is due to this that I am now trying to target other aspiring journalists to cry out against the ever-dominating factor of commercialization of the media. Money is an important issue, I am not denying that we cannot live without it, but the media is slipping more and more into the control of certain groups, thus risking bias and the retention of news.
             At this time, approximately twelve large conglomerates control the so-called First World media, as stated in several media textbooks (Vivian 24-25). This means that all the newspaper, television, radio and Internet companies that supply news are directly or indirectly linked to one of the previously mentioned conglomerates. This in turn, explains why some news stations for instance, talk more favorably of companies owned by the same conglomerate that owns them.
             Synergy is the word that is used in the journalism industry to describe the implication of conglomerates in the decision making of that industry. Synergy, means the combined action of a group of people (companies, corporations etc.) to obtain a result which is more positive than if that action would have been performed individually. You hear this word being used more often in the newspaper and magazine industry, whereas previously it was only common in the televis...