My Three Possible Topics

One of my topic relating to media is reality television, it can be degrading to the point were it can ruin’s peoples lives. En example of this is the Gosselin family. They being on national television caused stress in their lives to the point where they ended up divorcing each other. Now their broken up family fight over money and custody of their eight children. It is very stressful to be on television 24/7, being watched, and judged because they were on reality television. Similar shows Wife Swap, Fear Factor, Survivor. I think recording people adds tension among people because of the involvement of cameras everywhere. There should be better regulations to prevent similar consequences from happening to another family or an individual person.

My second topic choice is news on media and problems with news media, giving inaccurate information, with hold information, and saying half truths. Recently fox news was scrutinized by the white house for disregarding the facts. Rahm Emanuel said “is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective." I also hear on media news channels discussing about the “swine flu pandemic”. I believe the situation is exaggerate, there is too much emphasis on getting the H1N1 vaccination when there aren’t many people who are becoming sick with the swine flu. The annual flu causes more deaths then the hyped swine flu. The news media are not perfect but should thrive to guide the public with unbiased, accurate information.

My final possible topic that I consider is that role models on television and in the media people embrace model to look up to are bad role models for people to follow because there actions doesn’t justify themselves worthy to be one. These role models such as Brittany Spears, Hannah Montana, Kanye west have a reputation of being socially inappropriate in the way they carry themselves in front of millions of people who follow their every word and action. The action of the role models could easily influence one of their followers to act the sane way. These role model rappers and singers who sing about sex drugs, and some times violence could influence their fans to do the same. As role models in media, famous people should consider every aspect of their lives could end up on the World Wide Web for their fan based followers to see.

Bush off the Island

George W. Bush was the president with the lowest popularity ratings because he helped this country go into further debt because of the war in Iraq. Many innocent Iraqis and American live were lost because of this war. It would be better if bush was “voted off the island” and a different president would have handled September 11, 2001 in a different way.

The wars in Iraq caused the United State’s debt to increase into the trillions of dollars, creating a devalued dollar. The war in Iraq caused oil to sky-rocket to one hundred dollars a barrel. Bush intention to go into Iraq was to take out terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but it’s been about eight years since being in Iraq and those terrorist groups still exist today.

It seems to that no real process has been made since the invasion of Iraq. And that this sponsored and promoted war by Bush was the wrong strategy to help bring America peace, and revenge on America’s enemy. But Bush has accomplished neither of those ideas of peace and revenge when so many innocent people died and revenge on the terrorist groups, still thrive today.