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The Influence of World Events on the Media Are things in the world really all that bad? How much does the news media affect our perceptions of tragic world events and the way we respond to them? Keeping up with Current Events in the Past Before television and radio, most people kept up with current events by reading their daily newspapers. Before that, town criers made public announcements in the streets, yelling such news as tax increases or market days. Today, many people get their current events via the Internet. In the heydays of radio and television, there were very few stations to choose from and every channel was crucial to disseminating the news among the populace. Journalistic integrity was the prime goal of the media outlets, and men such as Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow became national icons of integrity and trust during world events in the 1950s and 1960s. Then, as now, journalistic integrity meant reporting on the facts without adding unnecessary commentary. It allowed the listening public to form their own views about events without being subtly manipulated by the reporters' emotions. Cable Television and Journalistic Integrity When cable television came on the scene, it greatly expanded the number of channels available to viewers, and news organizations began to compete intensely for viewers. As the number of channels increased, news executives realized that "spinning" stories (portraying an event in such a way as to benefit someone or something) was a way to attract viewers who liked watching news channels that catered to their political leanings. As we are now learning, this new paradigm in delivering the news has had a broadly negative effect on journalistic integrity and has greatly increased the polarization between conservatives and liberals in the modern era. While stopping just short of outright dissemination of propaganda, modern news outlets give a lot of lip service to journalistic integrity but are, in actuality, playing to different audiences. Getting a Variety of Opinions on World Events Catering to specific sides when delivering new is unfortunate, because it is greatly beneficial to a country or a culture to have a populace who is well informed on world events. This leads people to make better decisions about the leaders they choose to solve the country's problems. When stories get spun one way or another, the reality of the situation is compromised and good decisions about how to respond to events is, in turn, compromised. For that reason, it is wise to get your news from a variety of sources and to become a sophisticated consumer of news. As you watch stories and discuss them with friends and family, you become more aware of potential hidden agendas and, therefore, become more capable of teasing out the facts from the story. Watch out for the following things when looking for the spin in stories about world events or local news stories: networks or other media outlets that give certain stories more air time for longer periods in order to distort the importance of the story reporters who do not give both sides of a story equal play stations that choose unflattering photos or video clips to use on one side of a story but that use attractive, well-spoken proponents for the other side.

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