birth control makes women unattractive
and crazy global warming is over Muslim
plot to kill the Pope
what are these headlines all have in
common is it the level of outrageous
material or the amount of misleading
information are we actually still
surprised to be seeing the type of
headlines anymore the abundance of these
headlines tells us that the public has
no problem seeing them and have actually
grown accustomed to it have people lost
the ability to think for themselves
apparently so the media plays a
significant role when it comes to what
the public believe in and often has a
hand and enforcing misinformed opinions
but the real question here is whose
fault is it it seems like it’s so easy
to manipulate information and feed an
opinion and in fact it is easy it is
easy if your audience makes no effort of
their own to find out the truth
fear-mongering by definition is the
action of deliberately arousing public
fear or alarm about a particular issue
just look at our news networks for this
fear-mongering phenomenon so many people
still believe that terrorism is the
number one threat to America which is a
completely false statement because you
are more likely to die from a car
accident or even heart disease than from
the actions of a terrorist according to
Washington blog article you are
seventeen thousand six hundred times
more likely to die from a heart disease
than from the actions of a terrorist and
one thousand forty eight times more
likely to die from a car accident than
from the actions of a terrorist see
these are the things that the media
won’t tell you I’m not saying that the
media should be actively telling you
about how dangerous it is to get into
your car and make you fear for your life
every time you get inside one but I
think you know where I’m going here it
seems to be all a matter of the ratings
the media sometimes doesn’t give all the
information and in some cases fails to
provide any information since so many
people believe that matters regarding
foreign policy are more important than
any of the other issues we have here at
home the media doesn’t even try to bring
the other issues to light they just go
about beating the existing ideas to
death because that’s what’s easiest and
that’s what keeps
the and that’s the key and that’s what
keeps the people watching their
programming it also seems to be a matter
of saying what the people want to hear
since so many people already have
preconceived notions about what
terrorism is and what a terrorist looks
like the media just goes about feeding
off of the state of the people instead
of rightfully informing them since so
many people think associate the Muslim
faith with terrorism the more
conservative media outlets have made
sure to push these Islamic Oba Chi DEA’s
onto their audiences to match their
opinions there is no shortage of these
types of headlines stories like Muslim
killers or Muslim convert beheads women
in a garden these headlines are all
around us and since the media is such a
big part of our everyday lives it’s no
wonder that they have had such a big
impact on us and but the more liberal
media outlets aren’t innocent of this
either with a new president in our White
House the liberal media has gone in a
frenzy speculating about what is to come
for our nation’s future whatever your
political views may be I think and agree
on a few things like how we are not
going to war with Iran but then why are
there articles like this all they do is
make people scared about the
possibilities of war and make them think
that something bad is going to happen in
this case the media is doing nothing
productive but causing commotion and
instilling fear this quality of
reporting is harming America people are
too caught up in problems that aren’t
really problems they’re just
distractions
well the real problems are sliding under
our notice going unnoticed and
unattended to the media won’t change so
it’s up to us we are all guilty of
simply looking at a headline and getting
all of our takeaways from a few
sentences take this Newsweek cover for
example what are your first reactions to
the cover probably something along the
lines like this cover is very pro-gun
probably against your gun regulations
and so on but this is where you’re wrong
see you’re supposed to actually open the
cover and read what’s inside a step that
many of us forget and in this case the
argument is for gun right
relations saying why that they would be
beneficial for a country but let’s face
it no one actually sits down and reads
entire articles anymore or sits through
entire full-length news stories in this
new age of technology
everything is so fast-paced and even
longer pieces of work are sometimes
shortened down to fit into our into the
rush of our busy lives so many people
forget to actually do the research the
news networks have the right to the news
networks have the right to present
information in the way that they do
but since the news networks have the
right to present information in the way
that they do
infringing on their rights would be
prohibiting freedom of speech and
freedom of the press which we don’t want
to do but that may happen everything
going on right now may seem so far away
it may seem like these things aren’t
relevant to you but that’s not the case
see these things might not be affecting
you directly right now but in the future
these will be your problems so we need
to start caring about them now all these
issues are really important right now
you’re probably thinking I’m just a high
school student who cares about these
irrelevant topics but that’s not the
case we need to start being more active
when it comes to these issues so the
next time you see an outrageous news
article or hear some questionable words
come from the mouths of a news anchor
don’t be so quick to believe everything
do your own research before forming an
opinion because in the end these issues
will be our issues so becoming aware of
things is not bad it will benefit us in
the future
and once that time comes we will not
only be unaware of how to deal with the
burdens that we’ve have but we will be
completely unprepared for all of them so
it’s time that we take more action when
it comes to these issues thank
[Applause]
you
you
and crazy global warming is over Muslim
plot to kill the Pope
what are these headlines all have in
common is it the level of outrageous
material or the amount of misleading
information are we actually still
surprised to be seeing the type of
headlines anymore the abundance of these
headlines tells us that the public has
no problem seeing them and have actually
grown accustomed to it have people lost
the ability to think for themselves
apparently so the media plays a
significant role when it comes to what
the public believe in and often has a
hand and enforcing misinformed opinions
but the real question here is whose
fault is it it seems like it’s so easy
to manipulate information and feed an
opinion and in fact it is easy it is
easy if your audience makes no effort of
their own to find out the truth
fear-mongering by definition is the
action of deliberately arousing public
fear or alarm about a particular issue
just look at our news networks for this
fear-mongering phenomenon so many people
still believe that terrorism is the
number one threat to America which is a
completely false statement because you
are more likely to die from a car
accident or even heart disease than from
the actions of a terrorist according to
Washington blog article you are
seventeen thousand six hundred times
more likely to die from a heart disease
than from the actions of a terrorist and
one thousand forty eight times more
likely to die from a car accident than
from the actions of a terrorist see
these are the things that the media
won’t tell you I’m not saying that the
media should be actively telling you
about how dangerous it is to get into
your car and make you fear for your life
every time you get inside one but I
think you know where I’m going here it
seems to be all a matter of the ratings
the media sometimes doesn’t give all the
information and in some cases fails to
provide any information since so many
people believe that matters regarding
foreign policy are more important than
any of the other issues we have here at
home the media doesn’t even try to bring
the other issues to light they just go
about beating the existing ideas to
death because that’s what’s easiest and
that’s what keeps
the and that’s the key and that’s what
keeps the people watching their
programming it also seems to be a matter
of saying what the people want to hear
since so many people already have
preconceived notions about what
terrorism is and what a terrorist looks
like the media just goes about feeding
off of the state of the people instead
of rightfully informing them since so
many people think associate the Muslim
faith with terrorism the more
conservative media outlets have made
sure to push these Islamic Oba Chi DEA’s
onto their audiences to match their
opinions there is no shortage of these
types of headlines stories like Muslim
killers or Muslim convert beheads women
in a garden these headlines are all
around us and since the media is such a
big part of our everyday lives it’s no
wonder that they have had such a big
impact on us and but the more liberal
media outlets aren’t innocent of this
either with a new president in our White
House the liberal media has gone in a
frenzy speculating about what is to come
for our nation’s future whatever your
political views may be I think and agree
on a few things like how we are not
going to war with Iran but then why are
there articles like this all they do is
make people scared about the
possibilities of war and make them think
that something bad is going to happen in
this case the media is doing nothing
productive but causing commotion and
instilling fear this quality of
reporting is harming America people are
too caught up in problems that aren’t
really problems they’re just
distractions
well the real problems are sliding under
our notice going unnoticed and
unattended to the media won’t change so
it’s up to us we are all guilty of
simply looking at a headline and getting
all of our takeaways from a few
sentences take this Newsweek cover for
example what are your first reactions to
the cover probably something along the
lines like this cover is very pro-gun
probably against your gun regulations
and so on but this is where you’re wrong
see you’re supposed to actually open the
cover and read what’s inside a step that
many of us forget and in this case the
argument is for gun right
relations saying why that they would be
beneficial for a country but let’s face
it no one actually sits down and reads
entire articles anymore or sits through
entire full-length news stories in this
new age of technology
everything is so fast-paced and even
longer pieces of work are sometimes
shortened down to fit into our into the
rush of our busy lives so many people
forget to actually do the research the
news networks have the right to the news
networks have the right to present
information in the way that they do
but since the news networks have the
right to present information in the way
that they do
infringing on their rights would be
prohibiting freedom of speech and
freedom of the press which we don’t want
to do but that may happen everything
going on right now may seem so far away
it may seem like these things aren’t
relevant to you but that’s not the case
see these things might not be affecting
you directly right now but in the future
these will be your problems so we need
to start caring about them now all these
issues are really important right now
you’re probably thinking I’m just a high
school student who cares about these
irrelevant topics but that’s not the
case we need to start being more active
when it comes to these issues so the
next time you see an outrageous news
article or hear some questionable words
come from the mouths of a news anchor
don’t be so quick to believe everything
do your own research before forming an
opinion because in the end these issues
will be our issues so becoming aware of
things is not bad it will benefit us in
the future
and once that time comes we will not
only be unaware of how to deal with the
burdens that we’ve have but we will be
completely unprepared for all of them so
it’s time that we take more action when
it comes to these issues thank
[Applause]
you
you
Please follow and like us: