Assignment 5-1 Weekly written analysis

This week I would like to write about Casey Anthony and the weird following the trial had. If you don’t know about the trial she is a young woman who was charged with killing her daughter and burring her in the woods. The weird thing about this whole trial was the amount of attention it got. The amount of attention spiked when the verdict came in not guilty. I would like to first discuss why I think people pay so much attention to things like this and then why people think they can judge a woman by the bits and pieces they heard over the course of the trial.
I think people follow trials like this because they are kind of forced too. We in America watch a few news stations all over the United States. I know we all have our local news but the national news stations are on 24 hours a day and they are watched almost 24 hours a day by some people. Each one of these news stations is bias toward their owners views of the news and the stations all differ just a bit depending on how the “top management” think the same news should be put out to the people. I think that people who are not researching the things they hear get overwhelmed with the thought that the news is the truth. Let me be the first one to say that I think Nancy Grace is most likely a nice woman but her views are not always truthful just because she is on the news. Somewhere in our past the news changed from being truthful to trying to grab your attention and keep you watching. Just saying the truth and stating facts with no bias would let others then come to their own conclusions but since news stations compete for your patronage they will tell the story anyway they can to keep you interested and this is where the problem lies.
After the not guilty decision aired on T.V I looked at my Facebook and almost 90% of people disagreed with the verdict. They we all saying such mean things about this woman because the little news they saw made them think the way they do. I didn’t hear one news station the entire time this trial was on once say that she may be innocent due to lack of evidence. The media wanted to make all of us think she was such a horrible person. But what if she didn’t do it? I’m not saying I think she is innocent at all in fact I think she was guilty but the government had no evidence to prove it. And it should have never gone to trial the way it did. But the media wanted our viewership so they elaborated on all the things about the trial and came to their own conclusions, then convinced the public to think their way.
This is just one example of how the popular culture in the media these days is very powerful. The news and media can make the united states citizen think anyway they want and this is a dangerous thing. What happened to fact checking and coming up with you own conclusion based on YOUR ideas and YOUR values? Oh yea I forgot, we live in a world that is now controlled by the few and followed by rest.