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CONTENTS Page Table of Contents.....................................................................................1 Media's Construction of Reality..................................................................2 The Media............................................................................................2 The Environmentalists.............................................................................4 Conclusion............................................................................................6 References...........................................................................................7 MEDIA'S CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY Media has the ability to influence opinions by publicly ratifying or vilifying the motives and activities of any group and uses this ability at its own discretion. A nuisance protestor can easily become a hard core activist, depending on the perspective. As the owners of the media have a vested interest in the global market place, ' (...) [in] 1998 five transnational corporations controlled the vast majority of the media content' (Wiseman 1998, p. 75), the perspective is somewhat bias. Bonney and Wilson attest that: 'most of what the media report as having happened did actually happen. They do not, in general, fabricate the facts. What they do, rather, is to report them from within the dominant perspectives on the social realities of the day.' (1988, p. 11) Fowler (1996, p. 2) also points out that news, in a capitalist society, usually...

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