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=Types of Media=

Newspaper - 2is meant to inform people about happenings in the community. TV Commercials - 2TV commercials are meant to persuade people to buy their products. News Programs - 2News programs are meant to inform people about happenings in the community and across the globe. Radio Commercials - 2Radio commercials are meant to persuade people to buy their products or basically do what the commercial is saying. Billboards/Posters - 2Billboards/Posters are meant to inform the populace about something going on in the community Magazines - 2Magazines are designed to advertise products, fill people with juicy gossip and Yellow Pages - 2The yellow pages are meant to inform people about businesses in their local community, and provide contact information Internet - 2The internet is meant to inform people depending on the website. Some websites may have advertising to persuade you to buy products. Websites inform you about practically everything from A to Z Radio - 2The radio is meant to entertain people listening to the radio. It has commercials like I mentioned earlier TV - 2TV is meant to inform and to entertain depending upon the channel you are watching Face-book - is a social network and is meant to inform people about everyone else's life. Twitter - is a social network and is meant to inform people about everyone else's The media is influenced by social, political, and economic factors because of the beliefs of the people who control the media.

The owners portray whatever they want, depending on there beliefs. They also portray what the people are viewing. Economically whoever pays best is generally the one who's views are displayed. Religion also may influence the media.

The effects may be negative or positive depending on the comments made.

Step 2

1At first the Americans are portrayed as being good people and peacekeepers. Then we see the real horrors the American Government ordered its troops to commit. The American Government doctored the views of the public. Until recent images we all thought that Iraqis hated Saddam. These displays are acted out by journalists and American troops.

3The images showed the the same event. the destruction of the statue of saddam. the difference is that the one picture looks like a massive crowd, while the other looks like a tiny crowd.

4 someone doctored the images so that they looked in favor of the united states.

5 In my opinion this makes the US look bad and that we just used an excuse to go to a war that killed many American troops.

6 The intention was to make the united states government look good. They also wanted to make it look that the Iraqi hated Saddam.

7 I think the images were doctored because the us government forced it and the images made the us look good.

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9 The media and the us government gained by looking good in the eyes of the public and the world.

10 AN ALTERED IMAGE CAN CHANGE HISTORY BY MAKING PEOPLE BELIEVE FALSE TRUTHS.

STEP 3

a In the american paper it shows many images and portrays our men as heroes.

El Mundo shows the horrors of war in its images and shows the costs of war.

b The american paper uses larger text and has lots of colour

The other paper has small text and lots of info.

c The american article is smaller which gives me the impression that they are hiding something.

2 the american people are the audience of one newspaper and the Spanish are the audience of the other

3 The Iraqi citizens are not being represented the newspapers, as well as Saddam and his group of people.

Step 3 part 2

a The american newspaper shows many images and pictures, while the malaysian newspaper has less images.

b the american newspaper has larger text and more color. the Malaysian newspaper has smaller text and is more info.

c The size of the American article is smaller than the Malaysian one and that again makes me think that they are hiding something.

2 The audiences of the newspapers are the public and the world governments

3 The Iraqi people are not being represented in the newspaper. Saddam as well is not being represented.

Step 5

A nation's actions can be supported by the media in many ways. This will make the nation's actions look legitimate and necessary. In the following paragraph I will assess how the media assists in shaping and influencing the way events are portrayed and recorded. Consider how a government or country's actions can be supported and 'legitimized' through the media.

The media portrayed the Iraqi war as be legitimate and necessary for the US government. The media displays images how we are doing the right thing. One such image is the one of the tearing down of the statue of Saddam. This image however is "doctored". This rally is not a gathering of Iraqi citizens but of US troops and reporters destroying the statue. In a zoomed out version of the picture, the scene is surrounded by US military vehicles. For some reason these soldiers saw the need to fake out the public. I have seen videos of innocent families forced from their homes. In American news broadcasts we saw the Americans treated as heroes. We originally said that we entered war with Iraq with the reason that they were working with Al-Qeada. This is a perfect example of propaganda. Iraq and Al-Qeada actually despise each other. We heard from American newspapers that Iraqi citizens wanted to be free. Other newspapers around the world say differently. The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia says "The king is gone, but chaos reigns in a land of fear and revenge." The media convinced the American public that we were acting for the good of the Iraqi people. This is true to some extent. We did remove Saddam, who was brutal to his people. We also destroyed many Iraqi homes, killed innocent civilians, and threw the country into chaos.

Our nations actions have been portrayed in various ways. Some of these ways make the American government look like heroes. Others make us look like villains disrupting the peace in the middle east. I have assessed the various ways our governments actions have been portrayed.