Issue:  Media

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“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."
                                                                                -Al Franken


In today's society, most people receive the majority of their information about the world from media.  But how are media influencing what you know and what you believe?  Choose three issues within the field of media to develop in your personal manifesto.  With what are you concerned?

Some issues to consider:
          Diversity
          Discrimination
          Media Ethics
          Freedom of Speech
          Propaganda
          Media Censorship
          Copyright Laws and Infringement
          Media Objectivity
          Media Ownership



Begin choosing your topics for media by looking at the resources below:

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/156/mainstream-media

http://mediamatters.org/tags/issues

http://library.law.smu.edu/Free_Speech/




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