Fox: My News Source?

My perceptions were based on opinions I gleaned from people in the media. ... Many news stories, by virtue of the events they cover or the sources they include, would be seen by disinterested observers as favoring a particular point of view. ... Mass media constitute the major source of reference for information about the distribution of opinion" and that "the `powerful effect' assigned to mass communication is a subtle one. ... Fox News advertises it's self as fair and balanced and Fox News had an average of 656,000 viewers watching at any time throughout the day in January. .....

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First, she decides to start us off with a nice little sarcastic opening, using phrases such as: "from the bottom of my liberal little heart-, and terse comments such as: "Mr. and Mrs. ... It is for this very reason why News Week publishes both of their work, not just ones. ... It is my opinion that the media is slowly becoming more and more objective. It's not that huge changes in veteran news sources are happening, it's that more sources are being made available to the public. ... This fact is sadly neglected because Americans have this urge not to participate in politics, or ackn...

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Dismay, shock, disbelief was just the minimum of the emotions that was felt after hearing on the Fox news Memphis that Harrah's Casino Tunica would be closing and 1800 people would be out of work, me included. ... It became a reality my job was really ending. After hearing this news, I had to go to work early the next day; a meeting was announced for everyone to attend. ... Now the chance to move closer to my aging mother and Aunt, be with my grandchildren, return to my home church, and retrain for another job was more than appealing. ... Are my sources reliable? ...

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There is no doubt that TV, Twitter, and Facebook are three very different sources of media. ... The visual story also usually has an interview from a credible source. ... They tweet what they want to say about the story, then add a link to Yahoo News, or Fox News so you have to read it on there. ... When I am on my phone, I usually don't click on the links attached to tweets because it is a hassle to change over to the internet, read the article, then go back to my Twitter app, when all I wanted to do in the first place was read what my friends were tweeting. ... Twitter news cannot keep...

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When posed with the question what was left out of my essay the answer was obvious. ... The second article gives news from the agreement with Brunswick Bowling Company. ... Fox's Licensing and Merchandising unit is teaming with Brunswick this January for a deal that will bring exclusive Simpsons" Bowling Clubs to the brand's 109 U.S. and Canadian centers" (Ebenkamp). ... These articles where both from a journal type of publication which I hadn't used originally, all of my previous sources came from actual episodes of the show, website, newspaper, or from popular magazines. .....

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After announcing its plan to lay off nearly 30,000 employees, Bank of America sought other sources to cut the losses from the new government regulations, and immediately turned to consumers to gain back their profits (Dennis). ... The backlash from their most recent announcement about the debit card fee spans far and wide, showing up across the Web on message boards and social media, as well as on cable news channels. Gerri Willis from the Fox Business Network personal shredded her own Bank of America debit card on air, claiming, "Right here, right now, I'm going to show Bank of America...

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According to Fox, Colorado placed in the mid-teens in the 1980's. Fox states that he blames the slippage of education spending on constitutional spending limits. In addition, the source of school revenues has Colorado differing from that of other states. ... To my vantage point, the education system was shadowed by other political and economic news. ... There is something very wrong with that in my opinion. ...

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Examples of Western media such as Fox News is also implemented to illustrate the methodology behind their framing of Islam and their propagating of Islamophobia, further supporting and solidifying the arguments that my thesis is built upon. ... This created a shift in the social culture of today's generation, as people are more inclined to get their information from different sources of media (such as the news or the internet), as opposed to consulting with a person or a book about it. ... According to Robinson, the government would openly direct their news to the most established netw...

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Bush, the War on Terrorism, and its coverage in the American news media. ... Bush is reading My Pet Goat to children and sits for long minutes after being told that the country was under attack, doing nothing. ... Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," has been largely talked about: there have been debated on the news, as well as a large number of articles in newspapers. ... Moreover Moore uses a broader representation of interview sources in his films. Instead of relying on one or two official sources, Moore uses more sources from different backgrounds and with different point of views and o...

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