The First Setting

As I am sitting here, going over coursework for a busy day tomorrow, I began to think, because often I can make myself stop thinking.

Anyway, I began to think of the Watergate scandal; for some unexplained reason, in June 1972, five unknown men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters looking for some information; what, I don't know.

It was the sort of local crime story that would rate a couple paragraphs, but editors Ben Bradlee and reporters Bob Woodward and Carl B. kept giving the story high coverage, repeatedly.

At the time, Pres Nixon dismissed the break in as a simple and silly burglary, if you will. But then over the following year, the population showed and increasing awareness in the subject, which became known as the 'Watergate scandal.' By April 1973, virtually every adult in American knew what Watergate was about.

As Nixon kept with his statement:

"I am not a crook,"

 America began to think otherwise. Why?

It is because the mass media have the power to make something important, in this case, it was a damn good thing.

If the mass media has a feeling, clues or facts that something big could be taking place, they can make it news, anywhere. They can make it news in newspapers, online, on television and in the streets.

Because it was only after a year of the Washington Post covering this little break-in that occurred, did the Water begin to leak.

But what if the mass medias salient priority was depicting the guilt of an innocent man?