Places and Forms of power

Places and forms of power

I will deal with the notion of places and forms of power. First of all, I’m going to give you a definition of power in this notion. It’s the ability or official capacity to exercise control or authority over others. It can be a person, a group, or a nation having great influence over people. In particular, this power of the media is very important. Thus we can ask ourself in which domain the media exercise their power and how? Firstly, we are going to see the power of the media in the politic, secondly in the sport and finally the importance of the shaping.

The media gather the ensemble of means of communications like the news papers, the radio, the television, the internet…

All this mode of communication have a very big power in different fields:

I/Politic

First the biggest impact of the media is on the politic, in fact it can influence elections by choosing which candidate to cover and how much. For example, during the united states of america’s presidential elections in 2016, the different periodic spoke much more of hillary clinton and donald trump than the other candidates, and it’s especially the case for the international newspapers. Then there is a lot of rumors which circulate on the internet and when this rumors speak about a political personality, it put him in a very bad position. In the same style, the conspiracies are very habitual in this domain, we saw in class a report about media’s power and in this video, there was a man which was payed a lot to organize a frame up to a political man. For me, it’s the limits which the media should not exceed because this violates the freedom of people.

II/Sport

Then, the media influence the sport, indeed, they allow to make more or less known a sport, in fact, its the media which broadcast the different sport, thus in france we see much more football in television, internet or newspaper than handball for example. Otherwise, in those sports, there is differences between men and women, we can speak of discriminacion, to illustrate this idea, it’s possible take the example of Mireia Belmonte a swimmer of very high level which isn’t known. It’s also influence the sports’ personality, we saw in class, in the same reporter that i spoke before, that Max Mosley, the boss of formula 1, has been filmed without his knowledge during a sexual act with many girls and for this act he has been dismissed of his job.

III/ Importance of the shaping

Finally, the main power of the media and especially the newspaper, is to catch the attention of the readers through different ways to draft. For example, in great britain, there is two type of newspapers, the quality papers like “The Times” and the popular papers like “The Sun”. The quality papers are more focus on a texte well written contrary to popular papers which are more focus on big pictures with a headline which question the readers. More than 1,6 million papers “The Sun” are sold every day, whereas 450000 “The Times” are sold per day. Thus, the shaping is important because everybody isn’t attracted by the same things.

As a conclusion, media’s power are especially exerted on the politic and the sport and that thanks to a diversification of means of communications and thanks to a particular shaping for every kind of medias. Nevertheless, the media aren’t the only form of power, that’s why we can ask ourself what domains does the political power influence ?

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