Government (ID)

 It is the media that creates an illusion in which the American citizens value and belief are affected or diverted from the real issue at hand. In the movie Wag the Dog,  which was seen in the government class, the president has a spin doctor whose main goal is to engineer a way and a means to divert the news of the President scandal into a news that will captivate the audience attention. War, which is fabricated by the spin doctor and his accomplice the producer, is the non- existent issue that will distract the public from the president’s crimes.



The media indeed shapes our reality, and TV has the unique ability to provide graphic supporting images that will make the audience believe everything the media is telling them. News reportage release new information that influences the way we think. In the movie Wag the Dog, there is a statement that says why does the dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail, if the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog. The dog symbolizes the mass media and the tail is the American citizens who are being wag by the dog. Manipulation is use to influence the way we (The American citizens)  perceive issue, as well as, handle them when the issues is being presented by the mass media.


It is amazing how this movie made me think about mass media and the power it has over the American Citizens. The movie enables me to fully listen and watch our for every detail that the media is presented to us. To look out for misconception or fabricated story.

Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers (SSR)

Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers is an article of New York Times that exposes how America is changing into a whole new different world where the roles of women and men are being questioned. People are so use to seeing the women being the ones at home taking care of the kids and the house. Which is the roles that society has implemented for women ever since the beginning of time and the men are the ones who bring in the money. Now America is taking a new approach that allows women to decide what they want to do and what can benefit the family as a whole. Men are accepting women's position and decision to freely achieve their dreams in today's world. This causes a shift in the roles that women and men are so use to taking; thus, enabling women and men to live in each others' shoes.


Marielle Jan de Beur is an example of a women who's providing for her family while her husband staying at home to do the domestic duties. She catches the train to go to Wall Street, then she goes to the company she works for which is Well Fargo. As she goes to work, she encounters many discrimination because many of the men, who composes the majority that work in Well Fargo, believes she is useless and see no purpose to why she is working. However; this has not prevented Marielle Jan de Beur from going to work. Her husband is given the chance to experience what women has to endure as a housewife and respects plus love being a domestic househusband. Marielle Jan de Beur is proud of her husband and loves the fact that she is able to provide for her family. Both women and men gain a greater appreciation to what each individuals does for the family. It's pretty cool to see husband doing the things that their wife would do at home.


Karsten Moran for The New York Times