A college student talking to an old high school friend through Instant Messaging may send that friend a copy of an interesting article that flashed across the screen. News may not be prime reason for using the Internet but still the Internet is vital for transmitting news and opinion, even of dispatches from war torn areas, or disaster afflicted zones where the conventional media cannot penetrate. In ages past,

Her sample consisted of voluntary respondents, presumably people who felt positively about the website given that they are using the site, and are willing to fill out the questionnaire, as Thompson herself admits. Little data about the demographics of the respondents could be gleaned from the structure of her surveys, such as their occupation and geographical and social situation within the community. Thompson noted that as both her quantitative

The spin that often surrounds war, is fundamentally damaging even if it is intended as damage control for the nation as a whole, or at the very least the leaders of the nation. Public Belief It has been hinted at within this work that the old adage, the public does not necessarily believe what it hears, but it hears what it believes is at play when it comes to media. As

it's just how one presents the numbers. Besides story selection, Fox News often picked information to present in stories in an effort to persuade viewers to hold a specific opinion. Proponents of such practices claim this was an example of Fox News being hard hitting and not kowtowing to the liberal media's agenda (Anderson, 2004). In an excerpt published in the American Enterprise from his book We're Not Losing

Media in America [...] How does mass media affect American values? American media is pervasive in nearly every aspect of society today. Newspapers, magazines, online Web sources, television, radio, and film all create a sense of commonality, and often a sense of how to behave, think, and react to social and societal situations. Today, Americans rely on a variety of media for most of their news, information, and values, whether

Television on Society Television has helped to create and perpetuate perceptions of gender and race. Television and Perceptions of Gender How children form ideas about gender Perpetuating gender myths through entertainment programming Gender portrayals on prime time news Racial Stereotypes on Television Television in shaping the perception of black people Television and stereotyping Asian-Americans as the model minority Television played a great role in colonial domination of American Indians. Conclusion and change - where to now? In his famous dictum