The Importance Of The Media

These Two Articles Explaining the NFL Player Protests During the National Anthem is about the NFL teams protesting about police brutality against the African-American community. More and more NFL players are taking a knee during the National Anthem. Others are standing and linking arms during the national anthems. This, President Donald Trump responded to, he approves of the people who lock arms but he disagrees on those who kneel. It shows a disrespect to the flag and the veterans who served in the military.

Sports, particularly football, has became a political debate in September. The author of the article, CNN Sophie Tatum, called “Athletes, activists spar on kneeling National Anthem protests”. She explained that President Donald Trump began to criticize players on his twitter account who would kneel during the national anthem to protest against police brutality. Sophie Tatum writes that Trump and his aides are arguing that the protests are unpatriotic and disrespectful to the flag. Trump also adds that it is disrespectful to the people who fought to protect our country. Although players argue that they are just exercising free speech. In the beginning of the article Sophie Tatum adds an interview, Spike Lee, who is speaking out for the players who take a knee. He defends the players that they are simply protesting against law enforcement and want to be heard on the issues at hand. Reading the title of the article before I read the rest and

Many players and their coaches have been protesting police brutality by ‘taking-a-knee’ during the Pledge of Allegiance. The media has been sharing and it has now become a bigger deal since the president has addressed it by saying "Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a b---h off the field right now. Out. He's fired. He's fired!" This riled up many Trump supports, secially when later on he tweeted that it had nothing to do with race and that it was about respecting the country. This leads many people to believe that the NFL players are just disrespecting their country. The stereotype about African Americans, that they are often disrespectful, is also being used to ‘justify’ what a lot of the media has to say. But, the real reason many NFL players are protesting is because they think that they shouldn't have to stand if they don't have pride for their country, and they have the right to do so, according to their first amendment. They don't lose the right to protest when they go on the field like some of the media thinks so. Many people, often white believe they live in a just- world because they have never had to deal with the racism many African Americans are dealing with so they do not think it is a big deal and that they are protesting to be disrespectful. The illusory correlation can also

Trump and the NFL both feel that their views are valid, however, his comments and tweets have only caused more players to take a stand and protest. The players do not see things in the same way as the President. While he considers them to be disrespectful to their country, the players feel that they are exercising their freedoms. When they take a knee, or link arms, they are taking advantage of the freedoms that those in the military have found so hard to give them.

The NFL players, who chose to sit out or kneel during the Star Spangled Banner, was a not sign of disrespect and shouldn’t receive any consequences. Colin Kaepernick, an NFL player, had something to say about this protest, “ I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color”(Kenny 1). Any of the NFL players who didn’t want to stand during the National Anthem did nothing wrong. Trump’s idea to fire or suspended the players is just foolish. Many people would have done the same thing without hesitation, but this country is just so argumentative about topics like this. It is such a controversial topic. It is outrageous that these players had the

In the past weekend in the NFL, players, coaches and team owners alike took a knee during the national anthem to protest racial injustice in the United States. The first person to bring this topic in to the limelight was 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. There were waves of exalt and hate storming towards Kaepernick but what did it mean for the NFL almost a year after that incident it seems as if the whole league has caught on. Yet this peaceful protest has been under scrutiny especially by President Trump who exclaimed that athletes taking a knee should be fired. There are also, certain folks who believe that the flag is sacred and should be respected as such and anything others id disrespectful towards the country and the people who die

In an article by Benjamin Hoffman, he wrote, “Mr. Trump weighed in on Twitter, saying he approved of players locking arms, but declaring that kneeling during the anthem was ‘not acceptable’” (1). In addition, when Julius Thomas is interviewed, he states, “To have the president trying to intimidate people — I wanted to send a message that I don’t condone that. I’m not O.K. with somebody trying to prevent someone from standing up for what they think is important” (4). As can be seen, Trump is doing no better than the players who refuse to stand by refusing to let them kneel. The football players have the option to stand and honor the flag or not as long as they are respectful of the other people who do

In addition, people have the right to show support for something they believe without the use of violence. I personally believe the football player’s protests expand after president Trump speech on Friday, September 22, 17 “wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespect our flag, you’d say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired” (4-5). He refers to a previous game where a few NFL players, according to Trump they disrespect the flag by kneeling during the national anthem. In addition, on Sunday Sept 24, 2017, some NFL Players protest without inciting the public participation; other players from The National Basketball Association add to the protest. Everyone interprets anything as they

Now starting the new NFL 2017-18 season more players started their own way of protesting by either raising their fists’ or locking arms during the anthem. Recently President Trump made some controversial remarks regarding players kneeling. President Trump told NFL owners about how players should stand during the Anthem as a sign of respect and that NFL owners should fire players who protest. Trump said he wished owners’ would tell players who kneel to “Get That Son Of A B**** Off The Field” ! The following Sunday NFL Owners and Players’ responded very strongly by locking arms and taking a kneel showing The President this is about equity and equality not “disrespecting our country”

Picture this, an NFL player getting on the field and warming up. Then, as the game gets closer to starting the field clears so they could get the flag on the field to do the national anthem. This is when something tragically happens. This is when some NFL players kneel during the national anthem. Many people think that protesting the national anthem by kneeling is a bad thing. However, it’s what the players feel like doing even though it is a little disrespectful. Many players kneeled on one day and that was when president Trump made a comment about football.

Media plays a big role in society these days. Whether it be letting society know what is going on the in the world today or something as simple as updates on current life on social media. The media's role in society not only delivers information of the world but also brings people together through common interests or general talks. In Brian Knappenberger's documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of Free Press it is seen how media effect lives and how there is a much stronger meaning to what media stands for in society and why media needs to take its stand when it comes to people who want to devour them.

Over the last fifty years the media has played a bigger part in the influence on the public by using ever evolving technology. How does the media have influence over the decisions of society? It is simple really, if you have the power to show the public what you want then you have a great influence on them. Malcom X said it well, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” He greatly emphasizes the influence of the news outlets and just how much control that they have over the American public.

Our American legal consciousness is affected by media and popular culture. How we view the law and the ways in which we understand the law are influenced by people, movies, tv shows, and news which attempt to represent our justice system. There are two popular movies that represent our civil justice system regarding civil procedure in particular. The movies are Erin Brockovich and Legally Blonde, both have representations of civil procedure and the pursuit of justice. The film Erin Brockovich is based on a true story and portrays the case Hinkley v. PG&E, a water contamination case in a small town with hundreds of victims. The film Legally Blonde, is a fictitious movie that follows a young girl named Elle Woods in law school taking on a murder trial in order to defend her role model, who is also the accused. Popular media takes hold of American legal consciousness and molds it through movies like these.

Everyone’s comprehension is different and unique. When a person receives a message from mass media, he tells the message which is from mass media to another person. These two people understand what does this message means; however, they may have different comprehension of this message. People can think about each message and analyze a message in different way because they have their own idea. For example, when people do a survey for a film, some people may think this film is very good; some people may think it is not very good, and the other people may think it is a bad film. Hence, people can give their different or same common in the same survey. People cannot judge their idea is right or wrong. In reality, people have different idea because they may be influenced by how the mass media illustrated, or how another people tell them about this message. At the same time, mass media cannot have much power to influence people because mass media may be wrong and aberrant. People cannot rely on mass media. If the message of mass media is wrong, this message perverts their mind. People make rational judgement and think problems during receiving message from mass media.

It can change opinions because they have access to people and this gives it a lot of strength. This strength can either be used constructively by educating the people or it can be used destructively by misleading the innocent people. Power of the media can transform the whole society especially in the developing countries it can be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. But I think the most important use of media is to educate the people about the basic human rights. The dilemma of the developing countries is that people are not fully aware of their basic rights and if they know, they don't know about what to do and where to go. They don't know their collective strength. Even they don't know how to protest and what is the importance of