Comparison of TV news and Newspaper - Positions the viewer/reader

Any forms of news are shaped to make the viewer or reader have the same beliefs and values as the person who made it. This makes all sources of news selected representations because they are trying to make you feel the same way about an event as them. To gain a full appreciation of a news issue, it is necessary to view a wide range of sources so that you would get a better understanding …

…about the leader of Hezbollah which shows him as a religious person, this positions the reader towards Hezbollah because it shows him as a good person. The television report showed the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel and the Australians that escaped from Lebanon. This positioned the viewer to be against both Israel and Hezbollah. Both my reports talked about the same issue but positioned the audience in different ways. This proves that media is biased.