Kayla Salyer -- Bourdieu

Bourdieu's essay purposes the idea that television is changing the way we look at the world. It is hurting us, our critical thinking, and our overall knowledge more than doing good. We can see this loss of knowledge every day we look at our televisions. We stop thinking critically because the news anchors are telling us exactly what to think. This stops the need for us to formulate our own opinions and ideas. This leads us back to sameness in a way that may be detrimental to our individual ideals, for if we are all only following the information, and the biased opinions that the so called 'news' gives us, we are simply all swallowing the same pill, and eventually, spewing out the same results.
Not only does news follow sameness, but also agreement. News reassures the things we already know, it makes us in agreement with what they are saying. If the news broadcasters are really giving us various opinions on different matters, than we will eventually disagree with one thing, and stop watching it all together. If the news is confirming what we already know, we will be less likely to question what they are saying, therefore, they can more easily manipulate the public. What they say are very different opinions are actually very similar and have the same undertone; pushing you to see what they want you to see.
This, although not perfectly on track, shows us how similar various news channels may actually be, and that they may all be wanting us to see the same things.

Much of our lives are built on what the media wants us to think. They teach us what middle class morality looks like, how we should behave, what we should wear, and what we should think are the real social problems. The news chooses the issues they want to examine each day. For example, there is always homelessness, but they only choose to show it when it perpetuates their agenda. This agency is very important to think critically about so that we do not get sucked into what they want us to believe, without a second thought.

We must not just take the easy way out and follow whatever they are saying is morally correct to believe. We must look at facts ourselves and think for ourselves. We must form our own opinions so that we will not fall into sameness, so that we can make a difference, and grow as a whole.