I watched the movie "District 9" this past weekend on campus in the HUB on Saturday night. The reason I bring this movie up was the multiple examples of media effects and ways the media influenced the public. The movie is about an alien ship landing on Earth. The aliens are taking in and put into a concentration camp kind of area called "district 9." The aliens have been kept there for 20 years and now people want them out. An organization comes in to oust the aliens and the leader becomes infected. Long story short the guy begins to morph into one of the aliens. He is half human and half "prawn" or alien. He gets taken into the labs and is held to do testing. He escapes and is now a wanted fugitive.
Now the media part comes into the picture. I found it funny, since being surrounded by media teachings for the past semester this situation that I will describe is amusing. As the man is running away the tv's are shown first saying there is a fugitive on the loose. Next it is shown that he had sex with one of the aliens and is considered dangerous. This was not true the government said this to get the public focused on that rather than the conspiracy of half human half alien.
then there is a gun fight and the news describes in first as a "huge firefight." 10 minutes later in the film the TV now says "Massive Firefight in District 9."
Immediately I noticed these media tactics and how the media really does pinpoint and try to maximize and grab the audiences attention.
Until next time, Corey
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