Mass Media’s Undermining of Societal Values During Health Care Reform E

Mass Medias Undermining of Societal Values During Health boot ReformThere is little doubt that common chord years ago the American people wanted wellness premeditation reform. countersign media saw the controversy over wellness condole with reform as a strong issue to discuss in theirproductions, and most fulfilled their responsibility as an information medium to provide equalopportunity for some(prenominal) sides of this debate to reveal the benefits of their plans and the drawbacks oftheir opponents. However, when interest groups became involved in this dispute, advertisingtheir own beliefs against the Clinton Health maintenance Reform Plan, they manipulated the public byusing scare tactics. News media incorporated these ads in their coverage of the benefits anddrawbacks of the proposed changes and the present system. The American public persuadedCongress to kill any effort by the Clinton Administration to universalize health care because ofthe interest groups advertisements and the intelligence service medias emphasis on the accuracy of themessages displayed in these ads. The lack of support for health care reform was because of thefear and confusion the news media created. In this paper I will argue that mass medias exposingthe American Public to interest groups advertisements and the news medias analyzing theseadvertisements in their health care reform reports reinforced the interest groups messages. Thisreinforcement led media to acknowledge the interest groups basis for disagreement over and theflaws of health care reform. The disagreement over and flaws of health care reform eventuallyled to the downfall of this initiative and of societys valuing improvements in health care. Newsmedia undermined societal values by ignoring how health care reform... ... they rejected health care reform, and ignored mass mediasattention to health care reform. Otherwise, society would have had what it wanted universalhealth care and an news medium respecting, not scaring its audience out of wise and beneficialdecisions.Page 8Works Cited PageBeck, Melinda. Rationing Health Care Newsweek 27 June 1994 30.Bureaucats Coalition For Health Insurance 24 June 1994.Changes Alternate 2 Health Insurance Association of America 24 June 1994.Defuse Health Care Bill. The Arizona Republic 18 July 1994 2.Greenwald, John. OUCH Which Hurts More, The Shot Or The Bill? Time 8 March 199353-55.Reich, Robert F. National Health Care Reform Comparing quartette Alternative Plans. IllinoisBusiness Review 22 March 1994 3.Wright, Robert. The Technology Time Bomb. The New Republic 29 March 1993 25-30.