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Manipulated Media(5/6/21)

 Women's rights and female equality in our society are still significant topics that need to be better established and recognized today, but I feel like history is only repeating itself. I learned that when Kenedy served as the American President in the 1960s, the first female journalist was able to join the conferences and she was always given the privilege of asking critical questions. This continued until the second George Bush became president, and what he did was honestly disappointing and selfish. He would not allow for the female journalist to ask hard-to-answer questions, and eventually put her in the very back. All of the other journalists would only ask softball questions, but I honestly can not see the point of the conference if nobody is going to ask the questions that the people should know about.

We also looked into a journalist called Phil Donahue, and how he was fired from NBC for an absurd reason. He was a journalist who believed it was significant to cover both sides of a story to uncover the real truth. This sounds fairly normal, but NBC fired him in a case in which the journalist could harm the reputation of the owner of NBC, which is called GE. This sounds like such a childish thing to do for a news network that needs to provide viewers with accurate information, and Mr. Paterson mentioned that the guests/commentators who were guests on some of the shows were heavily biased and only in favor of one side. This just shows how manipulative our media and information can be, and any story can be bent in a way that the presenter wants to portray even though that could be anything but the truth. This has made me realize just how many people are dependent on solely the information they are provided, and often forget to actually try and critically view these sources.


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