Last week our class talked about how journalist's see themselves within society. Although the role they play varies between nation and the world as a whole there are common threads amongst journalist's that are worth nothing. The Watch dog aspect. News reporters in general see themselves as a sort of guard for the average American or citizen again their at times quite government officials. Although the government may have their own reasons for keeping things hush hush. information in reporter's eyes is seen as free and needed to have full disclosure. Much of what they do is to bridge this gap from the elite and prevy of intelligence to the every day man and women so they might be able to come to opinion themselves.
This may not be the case at all times though, somtimes reporters have biases and an intent t persued their readers to a similiar state of mind. this is generaly frowned upon int he united states with teh ideal to stay neutural and to simply divulge information without persuaiding one way or another. but outseide the USA reporters are very passionate and attempt out right that they are activiely trying to change opinions.
2 way mirror - our news reflect us as well as us in the news. we must be conscious how and what we consume in news. hold true to ourselves and respect others opinions.
http://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/tv-news-bias/article_0a17f096-4e41-54be-a0ce-7cd4d6e8ae54.html
http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/manifestations.html
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