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There is no way to know exactly how much of an influence the media have on the political world and the public’s perception of the political world. The media comes in the forms of newspapers, radio and most importantly television. Most often times each form of media has a different representation of a certain topic. These representations can be skewed very easily by pictures, personal opinions and editing. This leads to misunderstandings by the public but the public is also to blame for them as well. The consumers allow the medium they use to alter their view on certain topics. A well-informed consumer would do their best to get many different sources of information, whether it be different television shows, newspapers or radio shows, and after gathering both or all sides they make an educated decision about how they feel about the topics at hand. It is as much the consumers fault as it is the media’s for the misinterpretations. Being There is a perfect example of how the public takes the information they are given about a person/subject and elaborates on it and determines how they feel on the biased and possibly untrue information. I intend to prove that the general population are often easily