Assignment 3: Facts About Cirino

Thinking about Cirino
The media has always been an important aspect in people’s lives. Everyone always wants to know the latest news and what’s going on in the world. A few decades ago, the main forms of communication were newspapers and radio. Now days, people have plenty of options to receive news whether from radio, cable networks, or online. This has opened doors to many media outlets, which has created news to be more biased. In a society where information used to be interpreted by few to many, this has now changed shifts to where information has become much more inclusive and more people have the chance to get their voices heard making the media much more biased than ever before.
Starting off, since Cirino’s article in 1977, the
According to the Article, “America’s biased view regarding international news” the article suggests that American news has been “delinquent in international news coverage and in other areas of news as well.” It mentions that during the US war against Iraq, the US news withheld a lot of information that was going on during the war. One incident involved 12 American soldiers being captured and killed on tape in which the American networks were forced not to show the tapes due to requests from the Pentagon. The article suggests that American news broadcasts choose not to show a lot of relevant information and instead choose to air only what the government wanted them to reveal such as things like adding “more emphasis in broadcasting images of soldiers giving children candy [and] Iraqi soldiers happily surrendering to their family.” The article also suggests that the majority of America’s news coverage has been focused on news that mainly American’s want to hear. I can believe this because today mainly all you hear about is news regarding celebrities and news that seems to be to entertaining to the people only. Cirino makes a great point about this in his article when he says how ABC, CBS and NBC chose to show live coverage of the royal wedding and the space launch over more important events that took place during the same time like the Kissinger Trip, the Watergate hearings and the Food and Agricultural Organizational meeting because an event like the royal wedding was considered more entertaining. Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, in her discussion in the video “The news about the news,” says the reason why we don’t hear about international news is because “networks have reduced the number of their foreign bureaus by half,” many of which these places are home to more than two billion people. She also found that local news being the main news source for people only accounts