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President Donald Trump cares a lot about this issue. Whether you like this guy or not he has gone after the media with like no other dude from the Oval Office. He been blasted the news for being fake and never misses a chance to throw a verbal jab at his frenemies at CNN and NBC. But aside from all his antics and whether you agree with him he has shown a light on how willing the media is use fear to promote their bias. Both sides exaggerate everything and act like the sky if falling every-time something happens Washington DC. Guess what? This isn’t knew folks. Political discourse has happened since our country was founded and is basically the reason it was founded.

Fear in the media goes beyond politics too. It can trigger mass scares in the public. For example when ISIS erupted onto the global scene the press was acted an extremist Muslim Caliphate was about consume the entire Middle East and Europe. Which isn’t to say the problem doesn’t exist and that ISIS isn’t a real threat but that type of reporting draws attention away from the people who actually needed our help. The media loves to feed fear because people pay attention to what they’re scared of. The media can cause panic because it is our link to the events of the world. Once the news is oversaturated with fear, panic grows and people become less and less trusting of the world they live in.

Bias in the media is natural and will always exist. But if fear is overused to promote such a bias it will burr the truth and makes it harder for the populous to identify the reality of the situation. As Malcom X once said,

“The Media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” – Malcolm X

Not everyone will agree with this quote but most will agree with Malcolm with his sentiment that not everything the media says is true. It’s important to realize the task of the press is to inform not to influence. If a society decides to adhere to everything the press presents then it has sacrificed it’s ability to think as free citizens. People in power will abuse this regardless of their ideologies. They will prey on your emotions and summarize events so we can get along with our busy life and leave the details they don’t want you to know.

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