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Brandon Alva
English 2010
Reflection
Media has a great role in human civilization. It plays a vital role to strengthen and
flourish democracy. Media had been practiced and influential, even in a medieval period. Julius
Caesar decreed that all the activates of Roman senate should be posted on a handwritten sheet
called “Acta Diurna”. He had strong beliefs that news serves as glue, sticking the far-flung
empire together. By 17th century, many urban Europeans relied on newspapers for news of the
world. After the revolution, United States became liberal to media. Americans believed that news
unites far-flung nations as Julies Caesar did. Press freedom is America’s greatest contribution to
civilization. Jefferson always supported press freely freedom. Jefferson’s belief was the force of
public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The only the security of
Media are somewhat biased in modern world. I agree with Noam Chomsky that
American political and financial elites have controlled most of the main stream media. He has
discussed about “conspiracy theory” and “propaganda theory” to prove how information is
manipulated. He has propounded Five Filters. Chomsky believes that relatively concentrated
group of people (less than 10 % in his speculation) controls the decision over media like
investment, production and distribution. They have control over the major executive body of the
government too. Facts have proved that media are run not by audiences but by advertisers and
the main stream advertisers are big corporations. Chomsky believed that most of the working
class or lower middle class American who doesn’t have interest in foreign policy or world
events. They only follow orders and instructions. Most of them are focused on how to survive,
how to pay bills, how to get better job, and so on. Even if some of them pay attention to such
things, their voice is not heard. Such indifferences in nature between stakeholders obviously
enhance the government to behave irresponsibly. Media use logical fallacies, such as the false
comparison, the bad example, ignorance as proof, the tautology, the false choice, the red
herring, and the wrong ending. As an audience we should be conscious whether media are
manipulated or not.
Media plays a crucial role in informing the public about what is happening in the world.
It shaped public attitudes and beliefs, and play a significant role in social transformation. One of
the foundation of democracy is press freedom. It ensures that people can participate in
activities, and some passively participate and show their decree through the election or any other
way of expression. One way of expression is media. Media play significant role in flourishing
issue as a PEAR research is like an atom in an environment. Despite this fact, I have tried my
best to accomplish my PEAR paper as per the requirement. In order to reach well-reasoned,
thoroughly- researched and defensible position over the issue in my PEAR paper, I began my
research in immigration issues. As a student, I used SLCC library website and gathered
material, many more quiz materials, teacher instructions helped me to reach close on
immigration issue. At the last moment, interview with refugees and immigration official
consolidated varieties of meaningful information regarding the immigration issues. Before
started research in immigration issue, I did not have idea about the economic importance of
immigrants. After intense research in this subject matter, I have realized that immigrants have