Assigned Entry #5

        As we have all been discussing the power of media in class and doing research about it I began to realize an interesting fact that the more information you absorb about the world, the more capable you are of understanding its complexities. Knowledge you have acquired provides a foundation for more complicated thinking later. I started being more critical by asking myself many questions that I believe help people understand critical thinking way better. The questions that we should all ask ourselves in order to criticize media in an open minded thinking are:
-What are the issues and the conclusions?
-What are the reasons?
-Which words or phrases are ambiguous?
-What are the value and descriptive assumptions?
-Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?
- If they give you evidence, ask how good is the evidence?
-Are there rival causes?
-If you see statistics ask yourself if the statistics are deceptive.
-Ask yourself if there is any information that is omitted.
-What reasonable conclusions are possible?

Critical thinking relies heavily on being able to listen with respect to what others have to say.
 Those questions are questions that I personally ask myself when ever I view or hear the news. Mass Media has a huge impact in our lives, it modulates the way we view our surroundings if we are not selective in our hearing and viewing it will impact you thinking. I am a logically person, and any information that makes sense it will have some kind of impact on the way I look at it.