Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Week 10 #2
We can find that some news always report in TV everyday even though people don`t want to look at them. In Chapter 28, Griffin mentions interest aggregation is that " clusters of people who demand center stage for their one, overriding concern; pressure groups." ( P 363). For example, presidental campaign 2008, now we watch the same TV news report about the two candidates even though their speech is the same as the first they spoke to the public. The clusters of people are interesting in the news, some news about economic issues and our troop in Iraq are the same important for the U.S. people, but the clusters of people think that the news is the center of the issues today, they don`t like to put the news very often in media. Therefore, most of people can control the media, but the clusters of people can use media to show their interest.
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It is interesting how a cluster of people always get media attention. It makes sense why some groups feel it is necessary to form mobs or protests, but I always thought it was to get the attention from the public. It is an interesting idea that people can control the media when for so long people haven't felt that.
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