HUM 176 Social Media Responsibility

• Running head: Do information media have social responsibility? If yes, in what ways? If no, why not?

Do information media have social responsibility?

University of Phoenix

Hum/176 Media and American Culture

Yes they do, at least that is how I feel. I am still rather confused though. After recently reading that many of your big news companies are owned by certain companies that might quite often have a personal bias or personal agenda, now that is bad enough but I also read that there is no law that states that the news broadcasters have to actually tell the truth. I cannot begin to wrap my head around this. For some foolish reason I just assumed that they would be obligated by law to have to tell us the complete truth, boy do I feel naive....