Media, fiction or fact.

We can say that the world’s behavior toward the criminal justice system is great, perhaps dominantly and impacted by what they watch on television, read in newspapers, hear on the radio, and now see on the internet. In other words, the media has become an influential and important source of information and a means by which personal understandings about the law are constructed and formed.

The burden is that the media is also skilled in convincing people to obtain and uphold notions about the legal system that are based on misunderstandings, false truths, or bias. By using numerous images and sounds the media can affect the public’s reaction to legal issues, and persuade the public to accept the media’s altered viewpoint.

The issue then becomes whether all media articulations are a distortion of fact or whether the media is also capable of accurately depicting the law. Information and articulations become altered when they are illustrated in a manner that is deceitful and incompatible with their original form. There are clear illustrations of the media’s ability to illustrate the law in a manner that falls within the definition of distortion.

A lawsuit against different fast-food restaurants was launched by Caesar Barber for failing to notify the public about the unhealthy risks related to the consumption of fast food. Although, the lawsuit intended to raise public awareness and effort to make large corporations legally responsible for their pervasive deceptions, the media, in an endeavor to attract readers, used different schemes to undermine the significance and socio-legal implications of the case. Many newspapers and respectable journalists used catchy words, amusing pictures, and witty headlines to give the story an entertainment quality and create market value.

According to some hosts, the media must turn to these theatrical antics and dramatic strategies to maintain its mass appeal. The media are urged to present deformed portraits of the legal system to ensure ratings and maintain its power and impact over the public: Accurate images, such as the Paper Chase, which was located in a law school, have had to be revoked because of their unpopularity.

Furthermore, the research and description of legal doctrine are considered to be too sluggish and complicated for popular media. Hence, as a business, the media reacts to market pressures by employing numerous moves to persuade consumers including using deceptive headlines and untrue images to stimulate emotional responses.

It is specifically because of the media selection and chooses on what to concentrate on, that they certainly mislead the law and dim the line between truth and fiction. Events are defined as being fictitious if they are false, mythical, or based on an inaccurate belief. Although the term ‘fiction’ is usually correlated with the vision, fictitious events can contain real people and experiences but are mainly viewed as a form of recreation.

In discrepancy, truth is usually correlated with fact and reality and is interpreted in law as a thing that is the case or the truth about circumstances as rejected to understanding. The difference between fact and fiction is disappearing as reality is becoming more fictionalized through the media,s use of narrative appliances such as analogies. It is the media’s ability to illustrate their version of the story in a practical manner that makes it impossible for the public to discern the truth.

Although there is strong backing for the statement that media portraits of the law, be they are fiction or fact, are inevitably distortions of reality, the real problem is whether this is indeed a cause for worry. Many media analysts are concerned that the media will certainly undermine the public’s dignity in the judiciary, lawyers, and the legal system.

This suspicion is based on the idea that the media is the exclusive source of legal information, and that audiences are unable of avoiding media impacts in developing their beliefs about the law.