The Bais of Language, The Bias of Pictures

In this text Postman and Powers discuss the influences and bias in the news media and then they continue on and touch on the differences of stationary pictures moving pictures and language. The main differential between them will be the amount you're able to assume and build your own opinion of the news story.

Whether you're dealing with a stationary or moving picture it’s a type of language. It isn’t as clear as verbal language but still has its own way of telling a story. Postman and Powers say that still photographs ''speak only in particularities" (Pop Perspectives p. 485). Meaning that their ability to describe the story is limited because it can only show so much. It is up to us as the viewers to pull from that photograph our opinion of what is happening. This opens the door for our own bias’ to influence and alter the news story.
With moving picture Postman and Powers discuss how you have a little less ability to formulate an opinion but it’s definitely something that still happens. Something like a news casters undertone or demeanor can influence the new story. It effects your emotions and the infliction they may use on certain words can completely change your view on the event.

It gives you a better idea of what their text is trying to get across which is basically there is no "true news" everything is either paraphrased or re-phrased, even if done completely unintentionally. Something as little as a news caster having an argument with their spouse when leaving for work in the morning can change how they read a story. There’s nothing we can avoid even if two people standing next to each other witness an event they can have two different opinions of how the event went down.

The main bullet points of the story will be the same, but the reasons they happened or the feelings they evoked in the witness can be altered. Even the description and perception of this text is quite possibly not be the intended views of this article.