Wag The Dog Essay - 939 Words

Although the movie Wag the Dog is a comedy about a completly fake war, written and produced by a top Hollywood producer and a presidential Mr. Fix-It in order to take the focus off of a presidential sex scandel 11 days before the election, it does have a serious message to impart - Dont believe everything you see on TV. Sure, parents tell their kids that the man on TV isnt really dead, its all fake, and we all know that movies and sitcoms and dramas arent real, theyre written and acted. But we believe the shows not labelled fiction. We watch documentries and biographies and absorb the information as the truth. When we watch the news at 6:00 pm every evening, and read the paper over coffee and breakfast, we believe everything†¦show more content†¦They create a short grainy news footage piece of a young girl running from her village holding a kitten. She is in fact an actor and running through an empty studio. The kitten, village, and sound effects of screaming and sirens are added in later. This piece is played on the evening news and touches the heart of millions of Americans. They innocently trust what they are seeing because it is on the news. The news is not supposed to be fiction, it is supposed to be an accurate, objective view of what is happening in the world around us. It is not supposed to be made up to influence such things as who we decide to vote for. It is interesting to note that after the video was shown, many newspapers didnt even have mention of the Firefly girl that accused the President of sexual misconduct. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;The power of the media is such that even though we think we can trust everything we hear or read, we have to view it objectively and not absorb the opinions professed as our own. These opinions are often sublty mentioned to influence us and our opinions. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;The media already influence us and our opinions too much already. For instance, our opinions on what the ideal is for beauty. The media constantly portray the beauty of women being in their non existent weight. If you actually look at most of the models on the runway, youd be thinking yuck!! But because they wearShow MoreRelatedWag the Dog958 Words   |  4 PagesAlthough the movie Wag the Dog is a comedy about a completly fake war, written and produced by a top Hollywood producer and a presidential Mr. Fix-It in order to take the focus off of a presidential sex scandel 11 days before the election, it does have a serious message to impart - Dont believe everything you see on TV. Sure, parents tell their kids that the man on TV isnt really dead, its all fake, and we all know that movies and sitcoms and dramas arent real, theyre written and acted. 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