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In six pages this persuasive essay examines the role art plays in our understanding and perceptions of the world, specifically considering point of view, the public and the private, and the role of pre-conceived notions in interpreting meaning. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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contact with people, places, and experiences that would have been inconceivable once upon a time. But how impartial are these media representations? Are they depicting a complete and
uncompromising view of an event or situation, or a limited view that tells a story from a particular slant or point of view? During the recent presidential election, the
news media was accused of biased reporting that favored the man who would ultimately emerge victorious, Barack Obama, over his opponent John McCain. Media, in fact, all art, has
historically offered one particular point of view, from which viewers are expected to draw their own conclusions. If I was a supporter of John McCain, I might have been
likely to agree that the press coverage of the election was unfair; however, being an Obama supporter, I saw nothing skewed in terms of perspective.
Increased sensationalism by the media to exploit a person or story to make money is considered by Heinrich Boll in his novel The Lost Honor of
Katharina Blum: Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead. Bolls protagonist, Katharina Boll, is transformed from an ordinary housekeeper into a media fixation after she assists her
boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar blinding and unwanted glare of the spotlight. Readers of the News cannot get
enough of Katharinas latest antics, at least as reported by aggressive journalist Werner Totges. Were the stories true? Katharina bristled at what she described as "those rotten lies"
her ex-husband Brettloh told Totges (Boll 138). Does it even matter if the stories were actually true? Katharina has, in a sense, become a work of abstract of
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