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S. invasion of Iraq under what we now know were false pretenses.
Subsequently, I considered the coverage of FOX News of the scheduled 2011 expiration of the Bush tax cuts with the facts and I realized that their coverage was tremendously biased as well. While the President made every effort to support preserving the tax cuts for the middle class and allowing only those benefiting the wealthy to expire, the GOP leadership shamelessly accused the Obama administration of wanting to "raise taxes during a recession." Likewise, FOX made absolutely no editorial comment criticizing the expressed goal of GOP leaders to use their 2010 assumption of control in the House of Representatives primarily to ensure the failure of the Obama presidency over all else, including the most important needs of this country.
However, nothing was more disappointing to me in terms of its significance for the bias of FOX News than...
Instead of explaining that this entire problem was expressly created by the GOP and that they were literally holding the nation and much of the world hostage to a threat of a global depression, the FOX News reports focused on the GOP talking points accusing the Obama administration of "bringing the country to the edge of financial ruin."
Finally, the revelations about illegal FOX News practices in England sealed my position that the entire network is suspect. Ultimately, the entire process of discovering the extent of the bias of the organization changed my confidence in the news media in general. As a result, I no longer merely absorb news and I make an effort to obtain information from as many different sources as possible to avoid having my beliefs shaped by the financial interests of news organizations and their parent companies.
Subsequently, I considered the coverage of FOX News of the scheduled 2011 expiration of the Bush tax cuts with the facts and I realized that their coverage was tremendously biased as well. While the President made every effort to support preserving the tax cuts for the middle class and allowing only those benefiting the wealthy to expire, the GOP leadership shamelessly accused the Obama administration of wanting to "raise taxes during a recession." Likewise, FOX made absolutely no editorial comment criticizing the expressed goal of GOP leaders to use their 2010 assumption of control in the House of Representatives primarily to ensure the failure of the Obama presidency over all else, including the most important needs of this country.
However, nothing was more disappointing to me in terms of its significance for the bias of FOX News than its recent coverage of the debt ceiling fiasco engineered by Republican leaders. Instead of explaining that this entire problem was expressly created by the GOP and that they were literally holding the nation and much of the world hostage to a threat of a global depression, the FOX News reports focused on the GOP talking points accusing the Obama administration of "bringing the country to the edge of financial ruin."
Finally, the revelations about illegal FOX News practices in England sealed my position that the entire network is suspect. Ultimately, the entire process of discovering the extent of the bias of the organization changed my confidence in the news media in general. As a result, I no longer merely absorb news and I make an effort to obtain information from as many different sources as possible to avoid having my beliefs shaped by the financial interests of news organizations and their parent companies.
American StudiesThe link between popular culture and immigration has been the subject of numerous studies for years. Television and print news sources in the United States have explored popular culture and issues of immigration in different ways. The popular culture landscape has been characterized by a multidirectional public discourse regarding immigration and Americanness. As a result, popular culture has continued to play a major role in creating and defining key
" (2001) Kalathil states that the state has been both "empowered and weakened..." By the recent information and communication advances and as well these have created great difficulty for the effective hoarding of control information resources by the government. (2001) As the government in China has lost its monopoly on information, Internet-based media in the country "have capitalized on the opportunities made possible by new technology. By making available a wide
Popular Cultures and Humanities Popular Cultures and the Humanities Modern trends keep changing and their length of time within the society depends on a lot of factors. Of most significance here is how these trends turn from oblivion into being trends. The contemporary society has a lot of idol worship. This comes in the form of people identifying a figure that they identify with and try to do things like them, this
Popular culture has a pervasive impact upon children's lives today, particularly during the adolescent stage. According to the University of Tampere's Department of Translation Studies, pop culture is defined as "the differing forms and expressions which are characteristic of a particular society (whether local, regional, national, racial, or ethnic, to mention only a few of the different definitions of 'society' itself)." It is a recent modern phenomenon that encompasses all aspects
Popular Culture It is not a popular notion in today's culture that little girls are supposed to love dolls and little boys are supposed to love trucks and other masculine toys (Witt) However, if the toy is packaged in a new way it seems that it may be all right. The My Twinn may at first seem one of extreme socialization and not a desirable place to shop for a young
(Glende) One of the most recent technological developments which has precipitated a greater democratization of the Internet is the proliferation of networking sites that have become prominent recently. These sites attract millions of users and viewers or users and viewers and have become a source for the proliferation of popular culture. There is also a view from scholars that the link between popular cultures and the Internet is synergistic. In other