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=Step one=

__Types of Media__
News paper - informs you, entertains you Magazines - Entertainment, informs you TV shows - entertainment Speeches - inform, persuade Twitter - entertainment Facebook- Entertainment

The media is influenced by social factors. The media makes sure you know which celebrity is pregnant or who is breaking up or getting back together, but you may be missing some very important things. The media is also influenced by political factors. Something that you look at for information may favor one candidate over the other so they only show the good things about him, and only bad things about the other candidate.

In the original video it looks like the Iraqis are glad there are American soldiers there. It makes it look like they are happy when tearing down the statue. It also looks like there are a lot of Iraq citizens flooding in the streets. In this video the way the media portrays it, it looks like the war is a good thing. When you are shown the whole video you can see that the war may not be a good thing. It shows that the American soldiers called out the Iraq citizens. It also shows that the streets were filled with mostly soldiers and reporters.

=Step two=

Major cities in Iraq are Baghdad, Mosul, and Basrah. About 95% of people in Iraq are Muslim. Iraq is a Parliamentary democracy. In the social class of Iraq there is a big difference between the high class and low class. Middle class used to be superior, but in the 1970s the middle class became lower class because of the economic crisis.

In the two presentations there were some similarities but a lot of differences. Once similarity was that there were some Iraq citizens tearing down the statue too. One difference is that you could see most of the crowd was journalists and soldiers.

When the video was made you could see that the military wanted this too look as good as possible. They zoomed in a lot to make it look like there were a lot of citizens but really it was a small crowd of mostly journalists and soldiers.

This information let me understand what really happened. Sure there were a lot of people but they were called out by the soldiers, and most of the people were journalists.

The media chose to make this look like the American soldiers were really helping and everybody in Iraq wanted this to happen. The media chose to show everything that would make the U.S soldiers look good about what they were doing. The news paper images were doctored so we couldn't see what was actually happening. The images tried to show us that the Iraq people really waned the soldiers there. The American soldiers gain from these images. I do think an altered image can change history. If someone changes and image to something else and people think its true something bad can happen.

=Step Three=

In the Arizona Daily Star they chose to use a huge heading and a huge picture.

=Step five=

There are many ways the media influences the way events are portrayed. Social media can make things look bad, or look good. They can cut out parts of videos, or crop pictures. The media influences what he hear or see a lot more than we think.

In the video of the statue being torn down the media cut out some parts of the video. The part that was left showed how there were citizens flooding the streets, excited to tear down the statue. Then you saw the video zoomed out and you saw that there were not people flooding the streets only a small bunch of people who were called out by the U.S. soldiers. When you zoomed in on the crowd you saw that most of the people were soldiers and reporters. If the social media can change a video that much, than they can change anything.

As you can see the media greatly influences what information we get, and how much information we get. Social media can choose a side, then twist and turn things so that we choose that side too. Make sure the story you are getting is the full story and not only part of it.