The news is made up of timely, interesting, and informative stories that are passed on to individuals. These stories often contain events, people, and places that are relevant or of importance to the reader. In order to have news, you need to have a story that the public will find interesting or important so that they will read it; and it must also be a current story so that the reader hasn’t already heard it. The media are the channels that control how news is delivered to the public, and how the stories are reported. Examples of media include the internet (with news websites like CNN.com), newspapers (such as the New York Times), and television shows (such as Bill ‘O Reilly) and they all have influence over how the news is reported. The media has tremendous say over how news is reported because through bias, they can manipulate the details of a story so the viewer receives a slanted opinion. It is the job of the media to provide fair, accurate, and up to date coverage of the news so that the general public is always informed of what is going on in the world.
-Jon Decker
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