Media coverage on Katrina

The discussion we had earlier this semester about the food industry made me think a little in comparison to the media, specifically with Katrina coverage. Given the question ‘Do we really have choices when it comes to food? Or are the foods we eat chosen for us and brought to the stores for us to buy?’  This makes me think the same of the Media. When the media covered Katrina only certain aspects were shown to the public on what issues were occurring at the time. But who chooses what is televised in the News? How do they choose? These are questions I have always wondered. Every News station will have a slightly different interpretation of the story they cover, but for the most part every station will be covering the same stories.

And I find it interesting that in class we discuss how certain terrible events were not covered or even talked about with Katrina referring to racial events; though the people who were affected by these instances are predominately liberal. And the media itself is primarily controlled by the liberal population. So how does that work? Wouldn’t it make sense that people who support the Democratic Party would want to share these kinds of horrific events with the public? The same events that the liberal party is always accusing the republicans for doing (hinting at racism).

I feel that many people want change in the world; though it is not always talked about upfront because there is no plan to do so. I think that if there was a clear way to change society and make it so that everyone could be equal it would happen. But my question is how you someone or a group of people actually go about doing so?

Again going back to my first statemtent of comparing the food industry to the media. The media just as teh food industry has a lot of power against the public. They choose what we watch, and what we are informed on. For instance there are many killings, rapes, and missing children everyday. But not all of these instances are covered through the media. How are things like this prioritized? How is one childs missing story chosen over another? Who decides what is shown? Who decides what is important and what is not?