"how does the media choose the stories they tell?"

The media tell the stories they tell because they know what the public will want to know about. The terrorist attacks on the twin towers on September 11 in 2001 were said to be Osama bin Ladin’s doing. This is what the media told us. This s what the public wants to believe. America doesn’t want to know that it was the American government that set it up. The thought of Americans wanting to blow up the twin towers was scandalous. The media tell us what is big news such as the terrorist attacks or other things such as global warming. The media tells us things that we will want to find out more about and want to understand better. Telling us that Osama bin Ladin was to blame in the attacks was easier to believe, nobody wants to know or to realise that it is possible that the American government planned the attack. People want somebody to blame for the tragedy and the media will feed them the people to blame. The media chooses the stories that we will want to hear, the stories that we may debate, and the stories that have effected lives. These are just some of the reasons the media choose some of the stories they tell.