The Bias of language, the Bias of Pictures

This essay reminds me of the very begging of the year when we spent time focusing on the difference between how people perceive pictures and writing.  I remember looking at how a cartoon illustrating an idea or a picture capturing a certain scene was much more effective when it came to capturing the viewers attention and portraying a specific idea that you want.  Putting your thoughts into writing can just as easily portray an argument, but it seems to have less of an impact on the viewer because its thoughts rather than a coherent picture that stays in your mind. Pictures are an easy way to persuade and convince viewers that what they are seeing is real, and it is easy to come up with a certain evaluation based on what they want you to think.  I think that what this essay goes more into depth about is the idea that pictures or even announcements can easily leave out what comes next in the sequence.  Technically, they are not leaving out truth, but not telling the whole truth.  By doing this it is easy for media to shape a story into anything they wish it to be in order to capture the attention of their viewers.  This is why media sources can never be truly reliable.