What are we suppose to believe in? We are to believe that Global Warming and the millions of other environmental problems that are occurring, to be false or true. Agenda setting is perhaps the single most influential theory of the medias effects that applies to environmental news. According to Robert Cox, the author of Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere; News reporting "may not be successful in telling its readers what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about."
So again I raise the question...
WHAT ARE WE TO BELIEVE IN?
So we believe Al Gore's video, "The Inconvenient Truth" or should we believe that is a FRAUD? Should we believe everything that is put in the papers, because according to Robert Cox the main media organizes the bits and facts of certain events and using them to aid the stories so that the audience well be affected the way they want us to be.
What are we the Public Sphere suppose to believe in when we are told what to think about. Its as though our right to think and have an opinion on certain topics was taken away. So, the question I rise is....should you still rely on the media to know the truth or do you rely on what you see with your own eyes.
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I think media just helps us in getting our attention about an issue and then making us wonder "what is this all about?". It definitely makes you think, but I don't think it tells you what to believe per say. That's just in my opinion though.
ReplyDeleteI will agree with you one that matter..however who is the media to say whats so important. The media would rather inform people of killngs and murders instead fo environmental issues. To me environmental issues are more important than being informed of the thousands of murders that occur on a weekly basis. Do you not agree? I feel as though the media covers minor things..the media doesn't cover the overall picture which is the world and all the environemental problems. No instead they take time covering crimes and the stock market. In my opinion they need to inform people of the bigger picture.
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