How the Media Can Manipulate Our Viewpoint

We have access to everyday news through the Internet, television, newspapers, and so on. Most of the news we see everyday is strongly opinionated in order to manipulate the people’s views. The articles we read, the images and clips we view are all the products of authors and companies that have strong opinions on certain political and social events. Although an article we read might look like a completely objective story that just tries to explain us what happened that day, it usually is very subjective and supports a specific point of view. Through media, many people aim to change the societies views on things. The picture below is a great example for “how the Media can manipulate our viewpoint.” On the right side of the picture, CNN shows the good part of the picture, it shows a soldier helping a man in the war. The far left of the image shows the opposite: a U.S soldier threatening to kill the same man. This shows how different news agencies manipulate the image and change our point of view, and we cannot even notice it. They use the effect of media in order to make the society think like they do.