One of the most important problems that America is facing today would be the increase in gas prices. This is a major problem, because almost everything we do involves gas. Unless you ride a bike or walk everywhere you use gas in your car. When you want to travel whether it’s on a bus or plane, you are using gas. Everything you buy at the store was shipped to that store by a truck that used highly priced diesel fuel. Everything we do is affected by gas. I work in a restaurant and when we get our food delivered, all of the companies now charge delivery fees because the gas is so high. I came to believe that this is one of the largest problems, because of personal experience and media influence. You can almost bet on turning the news on or reading the newspaper and hearing or seeing something about gas prices, so media definitely plays a large role in this being a problem. I know this from experience, because of my job at the restaurant and seeing that the prices for everything are going up because of the price of gas. I feel I am not that dependent on the media for knowledge of this topic, because without the media I can still see how gas prices are increasing and how everything else is also becoming more expensive.
The second problem that America is facing today would be the War in Iraq. Even though the news coverage on the war has toned down since the start, this war is still a problem. Most of the news about the war is dealing with the presidential election. What president will pull troops out of Iraq and what president will keep the war going. This is a big issue, because people who are against the war will want a president who will end the war no matter what. I think that I have both personal experience and media influence when choosing this topic as one of the major problems facing America. I have two friends in the military and I know that whenever the news does have a story about soldiers dying or missing it makes me nervous. You never know what’s going to happen and one day I could turn the news on or open the paper and see that one of my friends was killed or missing in action. I would have to say I am very dependent on the media for this topic, because without the news I know nothing about the War in Iraq and the media is where I get all of my information on the topic.
The third problem that America is facing today would be our economy. This problem has been brought to my attention only by the media. Every time I watch the news a new corporation is going bankrupt or our country is digging deeper and deeper into debt. I know in my other communication class we have learned about the recent news of Bear Stearns. This just shows how we are in debt, because bear Stearns tried to invest in people’s debt which is very risky and obviously they failed. The media is the only place I receive information about the economy, besides my COM 217 class, so I would say I am very dependent on the media for knowledge on this topic.
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Good post. I agree with those three things being major problems in the US. I drive to Lockport three times per week for an internship and over the past two weeks, maybe three, each day the price has gone up between 2 and 4 cents from the time I drive there in the morning to the time I leave in the afternoon just a few hours later. So if anyone reads this--get your gas in the morning! Just a quick tip. Anyway, I think that gas prices certainly impact our everyday lives and is a nationwide problem, but to me, the bigger problem involved with gasoline is our dependence on other nations to supply it. We need to find a way to produce our own gas so that other nations can't monopolize the market and take advantage of us. Then in countries like Nigeria, the largest oil exporter in Africa, the upper class apparently hordes all of the money and most of the population doesn't have access to drinkable water. Then, of course, the US has to give aid so the people can have drinkable water. It's a never ending cycle where the US is always the one giving or losing.
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