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Rhetoric In The Digital Age

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Matt Marini Mr. Landry Writing/Rhetoric in the Digital Age 6 April 2018 Society’s Blind Side According to Journalism.org, 74% of Americans claim to believe that news organizations are biased. Even though the vast majority of Americans feel aware of the biases of the media, however, society continues to be conditioned by the manipulative tactics of the media. The media plays a major role in American culture but, at the same time, most Americans are unable to differentiate biased from unbiased information, which is a vital issue because it prevents people from being honest with themselves and others, and it prevents them from having control over their lives. The effect that conditioning has on society is that it inhibits one’s ability to control …show more content…

In the novel, Lenina Crowne, who is physically attracted to Bernard, talks about Bernard by saying, “I do like him. He has such awfully nice hands. And the way he moves his shoulders-that’s very attractive” (Huxley 94). Huxley uses this statement from Lenina to convey to the reader that social conditioning leads people to view physical appearance as a vital factor in their value as a human being. The major traits that make Lenina attracted to Bernard are things pertaining to his physical appearance, and similarly, the media in society today conditions us to believe that we must resemble the image that they project in order to feel any level of self worth. In spite of that, the reality is that a person’s value goes far beyond their physical appearance. Too many people spend all of their time striving to fix their physical appearance rather than developing their inner beliefs and core values, which are much more crucial to their worth as people because the world does not need seven billion clones that are striving for perfect physical appearance, but the world does need educated people who bring true value through beliefs and intelligence. Therefore, in order for people to attain freedom and reach their fullest potential, they must break free of their social conditioning by becoming aware of the ways in which they can be manipulated through the tactics of the

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