Going deeper into media

Since it has been 3 weeks of learning this course, knowledge about media has become into big picture in my mind. I realized the main concepts I must remember all the time are the"6 things about media" and the "media triangle". If I keep these concepts as my base knowledge, I can see the media as more clear picture.During last weeks class we watched the movie called 'wag the dog', which was the story about election of president, but the current president had made scandal so governments tries to cover up the scandal by using media. From the movie, I could see how the some of 6things of media is applied. For example in the movie government could control most of the media, which they made false news about Albanian terror and created a song that tried to bring good images to the president, this shows the example of 'whoever owns biggest megaphone wins' people tends to get only one side of story which there no counter culture.

On the other hand, we also learned deeply about the media triangle, which is a triangle diagram that shows how media is deconstructed to 3 parts: text, audience, and production.These are essential ingredience of media which are always included.We could deconstruct most of media into these 3 parts.For example the most people now watching and hearing about is the Olympic and for most of us we watch through the TV which is a media.

We can ask questions to deconstruct:Who is the target audience of the Olympic?, it is basically all the citizens around the world who has TV in there homeThen how the events appeal to us? is the players in the Olympic looks doing good job?who is running it? what ads or songs are played along the events?who profits of all these events?By asking these questions we could deconstruct the media.I also wonder if all things said in the TV about the Olympic is true? or is only the half of the story that is affected by the bias, How ever at the end it is sure that it is only one version of truth. It is important to check what is being shown and what is the purpose? because often the time when we see things repeatly through media we unconsciously believer it, as it is shown to us over and over again. basically media is our window and they show the sides that they want us to believe
check the videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHKwPKt7uA