Different Perspectives. Different Views. Different thoughts.

Talk about the idea of perspectives; Who has power? Do they have power if they have the media?

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There's different perspectives. There's always two sides to a story. There's always different ways of viewing things which makes people have different thoughts. In this picture, it shows an example of how people have different kind of views on the world. There's the one couple who is watching the world for it's nature and another person who is concentrated on the stock market. It looks like he's worrying about loosing money. Due to this picture, it shows that people care about different things. It shows two different perspectives.

Sometimes the person who is in power, is the government. Since the government is in power, it has power over the media and what they say. It makes the media use the perspective of the government. An example of this, is the war that is going on in Afghanistan. The media uses the perspectives of the United States government and doesn't show the other perspective of the story. This shows that the government is the one who has the power, and it has the power to what the media says, which makes us believe it. It makes us think a certain way due to the stories that are said.

Having power over the media, makes that person have power because it munipulates what people think and their source of information that they know.