The Fallacies of Journalism and Media within the United States in the 2010's
The following was an essay which I have written many years ago when I was a Bachelors student at The University of Michigan: Ann Arbor. While the items in this story can be dated with regards to citations, I do believe that the content is still relevant today despite the changing nature of news media today. It should also be noted that I do not usually touch on politics and this is simply an archived work that I wished to make available to those who were interested.Journalism has changed greatly since the 1950’s. This is not an argument but a fact. Though journalism is intended to be used to describe the current world, I argue that it has now become a system used to define the current world, and change it into something it is not by distorting its presence. In other words, it is not as much a tool to reveal the truth as it once was, but rather a device in which viewer’s perceptions of their current world is twisted into one that supports the agenda of the source of media. What is the truth? It is facts based on our current reality, not one that is manufactured. It can be supported by other truths, other facts, and it is reliable. It cannot be fabricated and it can be cross checked with research from many sources. It does not conflict itself, and if it appears to do so, then it is only a reflection of an unknown contradiction in the world and can be used to reveal a hidden inherency. Are we always given the truth? Unfortunately not. The truth cannot be twisted, molded or manipulated, but it can be copied. It has an impostor that is well known within broadcast journalism: bias. Facts can be exaggerated, and when they are, they become lies. This not only hurts the viewers who are accepting what is presented by these news sources as fact, but also sabotages the political adeptness of the American people — a serious problem that only grows worse with the passage of time and requires an effective solution: reestablishment of the Fairness Doctrine.
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