There is no way to know exactly how much of an influence the media .
have on the political world and the public's perception of the political .
world. The media comes in the forms of newspapers, radio and most .
importantly television. Most often times each form of media has a different .
representation of a certain topic. These representations can be skewed .
very easily by pictures, personal opinions and editing. This leads to .
misunderstandings by the public but the public is also to blame for them .
as well. The consumers allow the medium they use to alter their view on .
certain topics. A well-informed consumer would do their best to get many .
different sources of information, whether it be different television shows, .
newspapers or radio shows, and after gathering both or all sides they .
make an educated decision about how they feel about the topics at hand. .
It is as much the consumers fault as it is the media's for the .
misinterpretations. Being There is a perfect example of how the public .
takes the information they are given about a person/subject and .
elaborates on it and determines how they feel on the biased and possibly .
untrue information. I intend to prove that the general population are often .
easily persuaded by the thoughts and views of others.
In both the video and book versions of the story Being There by Jerzy .
Kosinski, Chauncey Gardiner is an ordinary man with no education. The .
only source of information was his television and garden. Through these .
sources he learns about life and death and common etiquette. Chauncey .
is then kicked out of his house, in which he has never left, and on a walk, .
a car hits him. The woman in this car is EE/Eve Rand the wife of Mr. .
Rand who is an affluent political leader and very good friend of the .
Presidents. EE/Eve gets the impression that Chauncey is well-educated .
and informed about politics simply by the way he dresses. This shows .
how people assume many things just because a person looks a certain .