News From Monday

Last night we had to watch the news for thirty minutes in order to better understand the media and its effect on the people and the government. I decided to watch the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams because, though some may allege that it is slightly left leaning, it is generally fairly unbiased. Throughout the thirty minutes they covered a variety of topics, ranging from the presidents State of the Union address to a Toyota recall of certain cars with sticking accelerators. They also covered the continuing tragedy in Haiti, the revealing of the iPad and the new PETA stance that angered many people. PETA now believes that the ground hog used for the national celebration of Ground Hog Day (Phil) is under stress and should actually be replaced with a robotic ground hog. Throughout this news cast I found no trace of the left leaning attitude people talk about, and in fact they were fairly critical of Obama’s first year, mainly due to the fact that they have to realistically look at his first year and critique him for it.