Places Et Forme Du Pouvoir

I'm going to talk about the notion of “Seats and forms of power”. To start with, I would like to give a definition of this notion :

«Seats» could be important buildings or institutions that represent a certain form of power, for example Buckingham Palace, it can also be a country or a state, for example the USA is a state which is powerful enough to influFurthermore, the press which is called the fifth power can shapes public opinion by using specific words instead of other and reporting a fact, skipping some aspects. It's true that the press can also be an effective counter-power as we can see with the Watergate Scandal. But it can easily turn into an abuse of power as we can see with a press article by Addullatif AL SAYEGH published in 2011. This article talk about Rupert Murdoch, the most powerful man in world media, he is at the head of the “News of the World” and to publish an article, his journalists got their information from hacking into the voice mail of victims of murder. As a result, they lost their readers by offending them and their advertisers because they didn't want to support disgusting and shameless acts. The destiny of this paper is ironical because Rupert Murdoch is so wealthy that it wasn't a problem for him, he'll just start a new paper and do the samething

Conclusion

In conclusion, we can say that to have power, people are always trying to control the thoughts of others and their behavior. The power doesn't encourage freedom. But even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers which question it, aim at limiting its excesses and resist it.

I think that we shouldn't let ourselves be taken advantages of and we should always pay attention to what we are given as information because they aren't always true or represent only a part of the truth, we must keep a critical mind.

Mass media like social networks, can have an effect on our personal identity: it can help us to feel that we are part of a group but on the other hand it can contribute to a feeling of isolation as we can see with a press article by India Currents entitled “A new country” and published in 2011.

Media can have a strong political influence or can shape the way we perceive certain groups of society, it's powerful because it makes us believe what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

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