Today Tonight used innuendo technique to indirectly state a comment about Rebecca’s lifestyle and how she takes care of her children. They have implied that she is a bad mother who doesn’t care about her kids’ wellbeing. Today tonight has indirectly stated that she can’t bring her baby home because of the dirty caravan she lives in but that wasn’t the truth. She couldn’t bring the baby home because the caravan was too small for one more child it would have resulted in sufficient space and she didn’t have the supplies she needed for a new born baby. Today Tonight also implied that Rebecca needed money badly.
Frontline composers have also used innuendo technique to get better ratings in their show. They have implied that it was the Serbians fault to make it hostile between the two parties. They suggested that Serbians and kardashians are violent people. They have also suggested that people should hate them.
Today Tonight told some facts about Rebecca’s story. They have displayed that she lives in a caravan; she has 7 kids to 3 different fathers. They have exposed that how much money she was getting from the government. They have also shown that she was pregnant in her early age and she was getting pregnant every year until she was 21. Frontline proved that there was conflict between Serbians and kardashians. They have presented that both parties don’t like each other and the police didn’t know about the fight.
Today Tonight applied entrapment technique by showing pictures of Rebecca and her home. They asked difficult and improper questions which she couldn’t answer properly. They probably added the interview, not showing the whole actual interview. Frontline used entrapment method by engaging a worker to heat up the show. They entrapped the parties to start the conflict all over again.
We can conclude that most of the shows/programs use advertising techniques to promote shows and channels for viewers to get attracted to in watching a particular channel
Television conveys messages to responders and influences their understanding of the world. As responders we need to question what we see on television. Rebecca Matheson had gone to Today Tonight for help to get her baby back but instead was exploited. Survivor had 24/7 hours of footage but was broken down to only half an hour’s worth of footage showing what only Survivor wanted the audience to see and to think. Today Tonight and Survivor both used the techniques; innuendo, fact, entrapment and omission. The truth in our society hasn’t been expressed honestly.
Television manipulates responders and sends implicit messages about the truth. Today tonight’s story about Rebecca Matheson uses omission to manipulate. In interviews with Rebecca’s mother, the editors cut off her statements without allowing her to explain herself. This gives the viewers a negative impression of Rebecca’s mother and makes them believe that Rebecca’s story is about her teenage pregnancies rather than her child. Therefore today tonight have used omission to manipulate their viewers.
Television manipulates responders and sends implicit messages about the truth. Today Tonight used ‘facts’ about Rebecca Matheson’s story to manipulate viewers. Today tonight used “Rebecca has 7 children to 3 different fathers” as a fact and wasn’t relevant to the main matter of Rebecca not getting her child home. This ‘fact’ makes the viewers intend Rebecca to be a non-responsible mother and someone that has no responsible of her life, making viewers consider falsely of her. Therefore Today tonight used ‘fact’ to state the truth that wasn’t relevant to the main thesis of the story.
Today Tonight used innuendo to indirectly state a comment about Rebecca Matheson’s motherly and mortal status.
Television manipulates responders and sends implicit messages about the truth. Today Tonight used innuendo to indirectly state a comment about Rebecca Matheson’s motherly and mortal status. Today Tonight stated that Rebecca Matheson couldn’t bring her baby home and then showed a filthy caravan. Using innuendo Today Tonight indirectly said that Rebecca couldn’t bring her baby home because her caravan is filthy but this wasn’t the reason as she couldn’t bring her baby home because it was too small in size for her to fit in everyone and there wasn’t adequate space for the equipment that her new baby needed making her look vile and unreliable. Therefore using innuendo Today Tonight indirectly stated a comment that wasn’t related to the story.
