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Television News

The media has been around from the printing press, and since the beginning of the newspapers have become commonplace. Television is the best example for the media, because the use of "watching television is the most common home leisure for men and women in the UK and other Western countries as well (Macionis and Plummer, 2002). This shows that television is likely to have influence on how people shape their ideas and how they feel real.

Since the beginning of the major media of those at the top trying to shape our views based on its use. This is a management media, though, may not always be able to shape the 'reality' for the satisfaction of everyone (even if it leaves little room for debate and should have perceived social norms). For example, Kellner (1995) points out, only 1% of the main television coverage of the Gulf War in 1991 offered dissenting voice to the war, but there is still a significant percentage of Americans are concerned about / opposed to war against Saddam. This is a media representation of reality and how it shapes the views of different peoples, that is reality seen through the coverage of television images in 1991 Gulf War.

This is a good example, when the media (especially television) have made to shape 'reality' of many people. This was seen, as claimed by Kellner (1995), through the massive support of the war in the Persian Gulf after the news broadcast said the U.S. wants to help the Saudis, and that Saddam had been laid out more than 100,000 troops on the Kuwaiti border. News Corporation hands, even during this crisis, the tours of businesses, supported by them, such as NBC News, who during the 1991 Gulf War was a big arms manufacturing company! ...