Braindead Megaphone Blogpost by John Wedrickas

BRAINDEAD MEGAPHONE

John Wedrickas

Comp 101

Lora Strey

In the article Braindead Megaphone written by George Saunders, the reader is invited to imagine a person at a party with a megaphone. The person with the megaphone may not have too much to say, but when he speaks he is heard indefinitely by the rest of the guests. This relates to the sport of hockey due to the fact that the media is who we would think of as the guest at the party with the megaphone. They may not always have important things to say to the viewers but when they do it seems that everyone puts their ears in and listens to exactly what the media has to say. Any kind of publicity that the media tries to make popular usually ends in rumors and stories being tweaked in order to gain more followers. I think that the only way that you can hear the truth in media is if there is information provided for the viewers instead of the media reporting something that they heard is true just to grab the attention of the viewers. When the media companies tell small bits of false information, then the viewers start to tweak the story a little more until the whole story is a big fib. One example had not happened too long ago with a social media site called Tinder. A player in the NHL was suspended for 15 games because the media gave out false information on what looked to be the hockey player trash talking the league on this social media site when his account had been hacked and he did not have anything to do with it. This goes to show how the media can twist peoples wrists to make them believe their stories. 

works cited 

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=588534

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007006410.html