Author: jove

If you consider ecological messages (or the consequences of failing to address the mounting pollution problem) then Nausicaa is a good example. It also deals with the horrors of war but there have been countless numbers of films that have done that.

Most Michael Moore films have political messages but then they are in the style of documentaries. Then you have movies about actual political events like 'Bobby' about the events leading up to the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy … Then there are movies like 'The Quiet American' which deal with the politics of war … And movies like 'Good Night and Good Luck' about the politics of McCarthyism in the 1950s … Probably one of the earliest silent movies which had a political message was Charlie Chaplin's 'The Little Dictator' and even his 'Modern Times' … Enough … ?

Today is easy for this.
Political messages are what people say that want to be elected.
Presidents the major at the moment, one wants to tax you, the other says he does not need to tax everyone.
One says health care is for rich only, the other says he wants everyone to have health care.

Easy, just pick a topic you like and writing will be easy, maybe read both side and tell the difference and what you think will work.

You have to be careful what news you watch. Much is in the tank for Obama.

Fox news.com, they lean to the right, but do tend to show both sides.

You mean Faux News? I think Fox News is as silly as the Onion. I have never seen so many blond empty heads as I see on Fox News. Where do they recruit news reporters- tanning salons and surf shops?

Fox is like the Alamo. They stand alone preventing a complete monopoly of liberal TV media. Get rid of Fox, game over.

Just remember this: You get more bias from liberal news than conservative news:
-12/08 Zogby poll on which is the most trusted news source: FoxNews 39%, CNN 16%, MSNBC 15%. The most trusted news personalities: Rush Limbaugh 13%; Bill O’Reilly 10%; Chris Mathews 2%. Web news is the most trusted, more than TV and print news combined.
-9/09 Pew poll, 1985 to 2009, on how public perceives media bias: 60 percent say the press is politically biased; 50 percent say it’s liberal; 22 percent say it’s conservative; 27 percent gave no answer.
-6/15/10: Rasmussen poll on who the media supported in ’08 election: 51% said Obama; 7% said McCain.
-1/10 Public Policy Poll, a Democratic leaning pollster, found that Fox News was trusted by more people than ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC news.
-1/27/10 Guardian, UK, on Nielson poll, wrote: "Fox most trusted news channel in U. S.”: Fox News 49%, CNN 39%, ABC 31%, CBS 32%, NBC 35%.
-11/4/10 Washington Post: “Fox News Channel towered over its cable news rivals on election night, attracting more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.”
-10/22/06 London Evening Standard: BBC CEO Grade caught on tape recording admitting that BBC is far Left, guilty of promoting Left-wing, anti-Christian, pro-Muslim views; promotes multiculturalism; gives no moral weight to America or rural folks; BBC Diversity Chief wants veiled female reporters.
-6/17/07 Daily Telegraph: The BBC has failed to promote proper debate on major political issues because of the inherent liberal culture of its staff, a report commissioned by the corporation has concluded. Says BBC director general Mark Thompson: "In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left."
-11/18/10 huffingtonpost.com: Democrat Senator wants FCC to shut down Fox News.“During a committee meeting on Wednesday about television retransmission consent, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) veered away from his prepared remarks to take aim at both Fox News and MSNBC: “More than just retransmission consent ails our television markets. We need new catalysts for quality news and entertainment programming. I hunger for quality news. I'm tired of the right and the left. There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to Fox and to MSNBC, "Out. Off. End. Goodbye."

And as to the Master Spinners?

-Walter Cronkite, speaking at the UN in 1999: "It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the UN as a first step toward a world government." And all those years I thought he was just reporting the news…
-Dan Rather, speaking on CBS Evening News, 6/17/87: “Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”

You could go to CNN.com and start searching headlines. Zimmerman can easily provide you enough material to write several pages. There is an article on there right now about the Marijuana debate, which is a good example of how young people only get involved in politics when it's something they can relate to. Workers rights is a hot topic right now. Etc., etc.
Http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/29/news/fas…

Http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/29/politics/h…

Yes, you appear to be worried. You did not appear to ask a question.

I think so. MSNBC panders to Democrat views, but their analysis of political inner workings is very accurate. I find they offer a more honest breakdown of American politics than Fox News, who totally promotes the Republican Party line. (I'm not sure how CNN compares. I stopped watching them because they seem to portray an ignorance of political power plays. They also spend more time on entertainment news than I care for. They seem to be trying to attract more mainstream viewers than the political afficiando types.)

Rule of Thumb for Politics:

MSNBC – liberal bias

FOX News – conservative bias

The End.

Oh yes. SO much from america.
And during your elections its blanket- *YAWN*- no offense, but you know how dull that stuff is; imagaine when you cant even vote. Way, way worse!

I agree its interesting to see news from other countries (until recently i read a canadian, several US, 2 aussie, 1 kiwi, and several european newspapers a day) but the media here concentrate on america. Despite the fact that we have close economic and political ties with european countries, we hear comparativly little, compared to the coverage we get from the US~ we get your politics, international, domestic, and showbiz news reported. Even the bbc, which prides itsself on its serious tone, will regularly report on innane holywood tittletattle.
We also had endless coverage in the *lead up* to sandy, and katrina, too, but huge flooding in france or the czech republic will just get a couple of lines on the news, and an ariel shot. An american school shooting will have frequent updates throughout the day, and be discussed for days afterwards on the news, but a comprable event in europe- where such things are far less common- again gets way less coverage.
Canada is almost never mentioned, but we do get the odd aussie thing, but nz is only mentioned when they have a quake.

The presentation style of american tv news is enormously different to ours, from the little ive seen- ABC, CNN. The NY and LA times are reasonably similar to our newspapers, though im entranced by the NYT's writing style, esp its headers.
If you install a tunnel app, you can watch our tv online, and of course read our newspapers whenever. You might also like to try some of our radio-bbc radio is superb- and ad free : )

'from our own correspondant' is a radio show in which reporters around the world report on weird angles on major news stories, or things youve never heard of~ Http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjlq (2/4 items in the last show are about the US, though this is unusual), and there are loads of more formal shows~ Http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/g…

i think our tv news varies quite a bit~ sky is slightly sensational, and closest to american news, itv is variable, the bbc not as good as it used to be. The best one is the smallest news provider, channel 4 news. Our provision is different, too, in that, except sky and al jazera, our major channels/shows are all free to air, and very good.

Uk online news~
telegraph~ Http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
guardian~ Http://www.theguardian.com/uk
channel 4 ~ Http://www.channel4.com/news/
bbc~ Http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ and USA specific news~ Http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/World/us_and_canada/

this is the best news show, newsnight~http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25 you can find bits on youtube, but will need a tunnel to watch it from the US.
And this is the best political & news satire, i think trialing again in a US version, have i got news for you~ Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-EZ705m…

btw. Thanks for taking piers morgan. Nice work :P.

Yes. Those three do NOT speak for the majority of republicans. I enjoy talking about politics with normal republicans, but those three and their devoted followers aspire to some sort of warped thinking. They need to be purged from politics entirely. They do nothing positive for this country – from the viewpoint of either side.

Start by forget ABC, CBS and NBC! ,Do your own research, and read, read, read! Do your own research and don't trust the news media for the most part they all have a left leaning agenda! Fox is the only one I would trust, but having said that, again I say do your own research! – Good Luck!