Role of Media in Current Scenario

The mass media has become a big part of our society and its counterparts. In a time span of 50 years this medium has influenced society to an extent where it has created wonders. This immaculate tool can control almost every action we perform, from speaking to the actions that every human being performs in society. The mass media has brought upon a new era of idea's and changes in the world we live in. As we analysis media in depth we will find many aspects of media which overlap and some of the smallest factors and aspects of media, which create the biggest impact on society.

This underscores why politicians have long perceived mass media as a veritable channel of disseminating an ideology so that the society can mirror itself against what the media feeds it and thus be manipulated. This further begs the question of whether the media is a contributor or otherwise to societal problems in the face of political ideological dissemination.

First of all, the media acts as a catalyst for swift, governmental action, such as in the case of foreign policies, through the manipulation of the public opinion. Post Cold-War, journalists were able to criticize foreign policy and incite the population to view some policies more critically or negatively. The journalists’ reporting angle and tone highlights certain aspects of policies that they want altered while avoiding to weigh the entirety of the law or change. The media’s subtle manipulation evokes strong emotions in its viewers and causes

The media plays a massive role in the construction of crime, this includes the reporting of crime, the sensationalisation of stories, over-representation of different social groups and age of offenders. Construction of crime is also through stereotyping both ethnicity and gender. It is sometimes argued that the media is an ideological tool that is used to distort reality from its viewers. Female killers are often considered as ‘oxymoronic’, as they are seen as contradictory. Females are generally seen as caring beings but once they commit violent crimes, they are judged based individual circumstances and it is not taken into consideration that they could just as violent as male offenders in their own right. In this essay, I will be focusing on the gender stereotypes in media, specifically focusing on female killers.

The media is an amazing invention that can be a very good tool during times of distress. There are issues with media sometimes but overall, it can be useful in the right hands. Throughout history, the media has been used wisely to enrich the knowledge of the public and to show what can be done in order to help their fellow man.

The power of media goes both ways, it can be a very powerful tool used to make people listen and help make important changes, however media can also portray important issues in a trivial light. Here again we look at our example on gun control, the media coverage of the tragic school shootings was on every news channel, it was in every newspaper, it was tweeted, face booked and whatever other media outlet there was, it was reported. Every protest was nationally covered, every time a school child spoke out against gun violence it was heard. The media is part of the policymaking process, it helps bring identification to the issue at hand, the media has the power to keep people engaged, they have the ability to enrage people and motivate people to act. On the other hand the media has the ability to fool and falsify, the government needs to be able to separate the media truths and lies when making their decisions regarding policies (Gul & Ulkemen,

The media has played a significant role in American culture. It has influenced our political, social, and economic beliefs for centuries as well as our democratic values. The objective of the media is to provide audiences with fast and reliable news while informing citizens with the latest news coverage. The majority

The media has played a significant role in American culture. It has influenced our political, social, economic beliefs, and democratic values for centuries. The objective of the media is to provide audiences with fast and reliable news while informing citizens of the latest news coverage. The majority

The media influences how people experience social life. Media such as newspaper, television and film, are important sources of information, education and entertainment. It can be used to learn more about the world and the people in it. In this regard it can be said that the media represent, interpret and endorse aspects of social experience (O’Shaughnessy and Stadler, 2005). The media are also implicated in social regulation, or in other terms, the government of society. The media are implicated in government and politics in an obvious way because modern systems of democracy are conducted through the media. But the media have a bigger role to play in government by structuring how society is controlled and maintained.

Media in today 's reality plays an imperative and vital part in getting down to business the conclusion of overall population over different matter of political and social criticalness. Ideas like trial by media and so forth are occurring which are an immediate consequence of activism of media and the dynamic effect that media plays on the mentalities of overall population.

A factor that influenced policymaking and implementation is the media from how many people can get informed of information as fast as a second. Notably, medias such as TV, radio, internet, and newspapers that are read and watched by millions of people across the world expressing their opinion. For instance, many news broadcasters such as CNN, FOX, MSNBC and others are being watched and judged and the same thing with newspapers online being commented and expressing their opinion on it. As it connects back on how it influences is through the people’s impression and opinions on public policy assuming what should and shouldn’t be done to bring attention to their crisis. As how the issues form the beliefs of many people which affect policymaking

The media plays huge roles in democracy. To begin with, the media ensures that the public and citizens at large gain access to information which helps to make citizens informed and this in turn helps them to make better choices (Benjamin et al). The media acts in the capacity of an informer by providing citizens with credible information that is not biased and letting them make informed decisions. Democracy holds that the people must be informed. Secondly, the media serves as an eye on the elected members and ensures that they honor the offices that they have been elected in and serve the people that elected them well (Benjamin et al). The media mediates between the people and the governing body and ensures that people participate

The media also influences how the public perceives issues. The placement of political issues during news coverage influences the importance of political issues on society. The ranking of media issues and society’s ranking suggest that the media influence the public (Weaver, 1996). The importance of an issue may rests on its time slot, sequence in the news story, or in the advertisement for the news.

Media plays a big role in society these days. Whether it be letting society know what is going on the in the world today or something as simple as updates on current life on social media. The media's role in society not only delivers information of the world but also brings people together through common interests or general talks. In Brian Knappenberger's documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of Free Press it is seen how media effect lives and how there is a much stronger meaning to what media stands for in society and why media needs to take its stand when it comes to people who want to devour them.

It can change opinions because they have access to people and this gives it a lot of strength. This strength can either be used constructively by educating the people or it can be used destructively by misleading the innocent people. Power of the media can transform the whole society especially in the developing countries it can be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. But I think the most important use of media is to educate the people about the basic human rights. The dilemma of the developing countries is that people are not fully aware of their basic rights and if they know, they don't know about what to do and where to go. They don't know their collective strength. Even they don't know how to protest and what is the importance of