Postman and Powers explain that stationary pictures are pictures that are meant to have one purpose; that is set to have the same meaning to everyone, and it is pretty much a fixated image. The moving pictures are things like videos, when a real motion picture is being presented. Things like and explosion can be extremely vivid to a viewer if presented through a video. As for the language, Powers and Postman stated: “Whatever anyone says something is, it isn’t. This sounds more complex- and maybe more pretentious-than actually is. What it means it that there is a difference between the world of events and the world of words about events.” (Powers and Postman, pg. 482) Language many times can become ambiguities, because often time’s people will interpret words in different ways. The main claim that the authors makes about the newscast is that there are bias. And that viewer should analyze newscast language before agreeing with what is being presented to them.
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