Entry #3 Just why??

In today’s world a majority of news cast no longer report the actual story they are to cover. In order to bring in more views the newscast must have dramatic footage or “shocking” evidence. Let’s be honest actual facts can be somewhat boring, but with a little “twist” and a couple of visuals the story will now become eye catching. Just like movies you need to show the best clips in order to bring in a big audience, but news cast are now using this strategy to make their station number one. It is like they are trying to sale their stories by broadcasting slanted reports. It seems like the news now follow the saying of “give the people what they want” and that is exactly what they are doing. These types of reports are called “slanted report”.  Although it might sound harsh people don’t really care about issues around the world as long as it does not affect them they can care less. They have become aware that some people may notice that they are “twisting” the actual story, but they are smart enough to add just enough to make it seem like they did not add in anything extra.

Here is an example of a slanted report. Although the footage is short you clearly see the change of the story. In the first few seconds you can tell that the news was reporting about a teen that got ran over or something related to that but as they are reporting something interesting happens. The footage shows a teenage girl trying to cross what seems to be a four way stop, and as she is trying to cross a car slowly drives in front of her. Now at that point the local news takes the advantage of the footage and tries to make it seem more dramatic than it really is.  The report was supposed to be about an accident, but as you see the one covering the cast says” as the cameras were rolling another teen was nearly got hit”. They tried to put spice into this, but the video is there and the girl was not even close to being hit, but I must admit the voice does make it seem like she almost did, but she did not. What makes it more interesting is as she backs up and trips over the curb and with the quickness the reported added the comment “she was so shaken up that she collapsed” now is that what really happened? Well not necessarily, as you can see in the video she fell because of the curb and not because she was shaken up.  It’s a little bit funny how they added all these extra things to make it more exciting, but this can change the audience perspective of the story. With this footage and comment I can see how the views will increase. This shows how easy it is to make a slanted report and with a few seconds they managed to report something normal to a “more interesting” report.