The Postman’s and Power’s claim that there is a difference between the types of pictures and language affects us all. Everybody is affected what we see and words spoken; their effects by the media is induce and entices our emotions. It depend the type that presented is to open our emotions to involve a response whether it is good or bad. The media has become very successful at creating the response they want.
The authors’ claim on the news media is really just trying to trifling with the events. “Of course, it is a tendency of journalism in general to concentrate on the surface of events rather than underlying conditions; this is as true for the newspapers as it is for the newscast.” (Postman, 1992) The printed media source is really left to the reader’s choice for reading, but on the other hand, television viewers do not. The authors’ presents a very good argument to the situation. The extending circumstances do limited the visual media of the amount that can be presented at any given time.
I do agree with authors views, because with the new technologies people are really gotten a bit lazy when it comes to reading. The majority of the masses would rather sit back and have someone tell what to think and do; then put any effort into their own enlightenment, this really a shame on the human race. Have we forgotten the past so quickly?
Postman, N & Powers, S., (1992), The bias of language, the bias of pictures. In L. Bray-Rosendale, Pop Perspectives (pp. 481-490). New York: McGraw-Hill.
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