Media Misrepresentation

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Another thing Goldacre argues that coincides to media misrepresentation would be how evident it is that released data from the media often pushes positive results whilst hiding trials conducted that go on in the background, which is illogical to him. It shows that there’s such thing as publication bias, and may hint that certain companies are trying to hide what’s going on in reality. Not only is this a present issue, but something that’s been festering for ages; take a glance at Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan. As an article by Elizabeth Howell on “space.com” exclaims, these were three women behind the scenes to crucial maths conducted and utilised by NASA and their launches; however, not many people knew of this until …show more content…
Much of what the public takes in daily aren’t sincerely credited or acknowledged, for instance, something as simple as the weather forecast. The released weather forecast is a royal convenience to the public and have saved many that didn’t think twice about bringing an umbrella to work, yet as convenient as it is very few know the inner-workings of meteorology and how it predicts the future forecast past the local weatherman on channel 3. In reality meteorology is a complicated sport, as pushed by author Nelson M. Rae on his article dedicated to “Weather Forecasting,” that is based around similarly a lot of observation and a boatload of help from sizable computers measuring ups and downs of precipitation percentages, humidity levels, air pressure, etc.--it goes past the notion that usually comes with assuming the weather and how obvious it may seem: if it’s cloudy, it may rain; if hot and cold mixes in an area suddenly/unpleasantly, a storm is likely on the …show more content…
This goes the same for released news: another article by Rae, that goes over air pollution and how it affects the world around us at a level we can’t see, delves far enough to thoroughly explain and exhibit how many trials this topic has gone through so that pollution acknowledgement is not a theory, but a factual observation of the world around us. It pulls observations ranging from London to Los Angeles to display the complexity and range of the scale. So much of media representation is based on the “what,” so it’s important to observe and appreciate when the “why” and “how” are evaluated, and more important for more people to ask. If people saw how sciences worked more often than not, and knew the reality of what goes on to produce a product or arrive at a conclusion, then there would be a further enveloped understanding of the world as a whole, since that’s truly the goal of
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