Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Social Construction Of Reality - II

"Wag the Dog" is all about the political situation before the election in United States. This movie also carries a serious relation between politics and media. Only for getting sympathy from public, the President of United States made a fake war against Albania. They used the name Albania because the name sound sinister and the people of United States do not know much about Albania. For this reason, it is very easy for the president of United States to arrange a fake war. To get out from sex Scandal and also wanting to win the election, president used the media and the media did well. After that he became more famous then the past people believe in media as much as they can. They Influenced by the media and they don’t want to justify, what media shows is that right or wrong. We believe what media brings to us that are true and this is also a reality. This reality came to us from the past political and social situation.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is a very good post, but you did not properly reference the material you quoted here: "They used the name Albania because the name sound sinister and the people of United States do not know much about [Albania]".

James Berardinelli, "Review: Wag the Dog," Reelviews.net, 1997 (http://www.reelviews.net/movies/w/wag.html)

Because of that I am marking you down one point.

Come see me after class.

J-