Civil Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri: How the Media is Portraying it
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and thats power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
-Malcolm X
The rhetoric behind different media outlets coverage of the events surrounding Ferguson and the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, specifically, the coverage that came after it was announced the involved officer would not be indicted suggests there is a political influence in the mainstream media. Different news stations offered different potrayals of the events based largely off their targeted audiences as well as where they sit on the political spectrum.