The Media Can Be Like A Drug

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Man has always looked up to others who are smarter, wealthier, or more important than he is for a guide on how to live. In modern times these roles are often thrown into the laps of celebrities. Since the understanding of celebrities come from the productions they endorse, man 's trust is now in the hands of fictional characters. Because he is so impressionable, an ignorant man can easily become an imitation of the people he watches everyday. There are many messages conveyed in the media, good and evil. Sometimes, one can gain insights from the things he allows to enter his mind, but this is a rare phenomena because of how secularized the modern media is. When every show aimed at young, impressionable girls features 'models, ' it can easily be assumed that these girls will then want to mimic that same look. This situation does not cause immediate harm to the girl, but overtime will teach her that having the looks of those models and nothing but that will bring her beauty. This is also true for the push of sex into almost every tv show or movie. It is extremely rare to find a top-ranked movie without sex appeal. Sex is then portrayed as a trivial act of maturity. The Mindy Project on the CW reveals the life of a young, Indian OB/GYN in New York City. The main character, Mindy Lahiri, is constantly battling problems in her relationships. The Mindy Project can benefit viewers through her message of self-acceptance, but can also damage them by showing the idea of casual sex as

We can assume the time of the year or season is winter based off of the man’s attire, viewers can also tell he’s in a elevator going home based off the buttons. He’s wearing a seasonal sweater with a beanie and scarf. The man appears to be chubbier and lacking in bodily exercise. The advertisement has the phrase “There’s a man in there.” So in the first man you see a man dressed in jungle warfare attire. He has a snake wrapped around his neck like the previous man’s scarf. So to sum the picture up the advertisement displays a comfortable non-dangerous man, and then a man depicted as wild dangerous. you can see that the ad satisfies the need to achieve, the need to be dominate, the need to escape, as well as the need for

Media has been playing a significant role in our daily lives by developing our personalities, enriching our knowledge and providing us with different sorts of information. It has a tremendous power in framing cultural guidelines and shaping political dissertation. If the information provided to the U.S. citizens is distorted, then they cannot make informed decisions on the matters of public policy. Thus, it becomes vital to the American democracy that the news media and its institutions remain unbiased, fair and accurate. Media bias happens when a media systematically and persistently emphasize one particular point of view that is usually below the standards of professional journalism. There can be various reasons for media bias, some of

When someone looks at an advertisement there is more that meets the eye than just pictures

It is now scientifically backed up and we are still doing it. It is hurting america every day it is allowed to continue. It continues to harm us physically and mentally. People are finally realising that the amount of tv we watch now days are killing us and harming use mentally. There have been study after study telling us that amount of time we spend in front of the tv or on our phones is bad and not at all beneficial to us at all. The amount of time an average teen spends on digital media so longer than the time we do anything else it is even longer than the time an average teen spends sleeping which is 7 hours we spend up to 9 hours every day according to the digital diet of american teens by rawhide.

This ads use of the startling image in contrast to the small words proves highly effective to the reader in swaying their opinion on the issues of war. By using the color scheme they also prove able to get people on there side on a comfort level too. So the startling but yet subtle nature of this ad turned out to be highly effective in making people think more about difficult topics and also convince them to do something about the

This advertisement clearly is wanting the focus to be on the text and the character. The background is very distorted consisting of a greyish tone, varying from light to dark, and a splash of blue right through the middle. The character and the text are both in the foreground. The character is full of color he is light-green with light-brown spots around his head, one of the spots resemble a heart shape. He also has light-brown eyes. The coffee cup is in the characters’ right hand and is light-blue with dark-blue diamonds around the center. The text “I Just Saved My Liver by Switching To” is semi-bold and white while “Medical Cannabis” is bold and yellow in color. Here the advertisement is putting the focus on “Medical Cannabis” by having it brighter than the rest of the advertisement. The color of the text makes it jump out and clearly state the focal point to be about “Medical Cannabis.”

“Public opinion is formed and expressed by machinery. The newspapers do an immense amount of thinking for the average man and woman. In fact, they supply them with such a continuous stream of standardized opinion, bourne along upon an equally inexhaustible flood of news and sensation, collected from every part of the world every hour of the day, that there is neither the need nor the leisure for personal reflection. All this is but part of a tremendous educating process. It is an education at once universal and superficial. It produces enormous numbers of standardized citizens, all equipped with regulation opinions, prejudices and sentiments according to their class or party.” – Winston S. Churchill

It has been stated that the media is biased, and consequently acts as a destructive force in our republic, an idea that has proven to be realistic in society today in American politics. Rather than showing information on politics in a neutral manner, the media will only provide information on what they believe is important, attempting to influence the American people with one side of the story. With that, the media is a destructive force for reasons also including that it has no choice but to be, it is just a way of nature of the media. The final reason as to why the media acts as a monster to our republic is because rather than focusing the attention of the information that will benefit our society, the media provides viewers information on

Lack of media influence in present-day democracies makes accountability and openness virtually impossible. Nevertheless, the media is a powerful tool that can be used to either support or hinder political transparency. Can we, as Americans, really believe the media? If so, how can we find clarity on what’s true and what’s not? In most cases, the media tends to translate coverage of politics and law into forms of entertainment for the American people (London, 2015). However, the media also acts a powerful informant of the country’s political issues and status. Consequently, this triggers a great dilemma among the American people as to whether or not to believe the media. As a result, it is a major challenge among the citizens to differentiate

In today’s society, remaining connected and knowledgeable of current events and the newest trends is vital to staying ahead in business, education, and social standing. This information is supplied to everyone through the internet, newspapers, television, and radio. One can tune into stations such as CNN, NBC, Fox News, Al-Jazeera, and many others (“SQs of Media Outlets”). In order to meet the needs of viewers, readers, and listeners, the ideal media system would contain accurate, quick information, with a purely impartial view on the facts as they are known. However, this modern media system has not maintained an objective view, pushing opinionated and slanted reporting onto the population in order to create profit and gain customers. The exploitation of information media for personal gain has created a toxic and inaccurate present, constant in today’s society.

As Brooke Gladstone stated in The Influencing Machine, “The media machine is a delusion. What we’re really dealing with is a mirror: an exalting, degrading, tedious, and transcendent funhouse mirror of America” (Gladstone xxi). It often goes unnoticed how frequently the media reflects America as if it were a mirror. Popular culture, television, and nearly every social media platform essentially showcases a mirror of American society as a whole. The media typically displays exactly what society wants to see which evidently, is just an exaggerated or glamorized mirror of themselves and their own lives, thus creating a distorted view of reality. Similar to Gladstone, David Foster Wallace also refers to the media as a mirror in Television and U.S. Fiction. He explains this further: “If we want to know what American normality is- what Americans want to regard as normal- we can trust television. For television’s whole raison is reflecting what people want to see. It’s a mirror” (Wallace 152). One important aspect of society that is reflected through the media are Gender roles. A gender role is defined as any behavior or characteristic that is put into a “male” or “female” category. Society has always had gender roles that help to add structure to everyday lives. Although gender roles have changed greatly over time, they have always been an important part of society. In the TV series Mad Men, audiences are able to see how main character Don Draper’s life

In order to help avert an accident involving a child, this ad tries to motivate whoever is looking at it to not be distracted while driving. Some examples shown in the picture of possible distractions are the phone and the map. While the man shown is talking on his phone, he is also attempting to look a the map and not even glancing at the road. The woman in the picture is viewed by holding the map and trying to navigate; while her eye contact is on the man beside her and not on the road. This advertisement definitely wants to play focus on your emotions that will contribute to looking at the picture. The edges of the photo are dark and gray, but they increasingly grow lighter just enough to play full focus on the child. The ad shows the kid in front of the car about to get hit, with the face of their innocent child in the backseat. You can see the child screaming with his hand up, trying to obtain the driver's attention. There is a way that the author positioned woman with her hand up just like the young child, however, her action was displayed as if she did not care. The child in the backseat has a face of confusion or almost fear as if he might know what would be going on. They set this up in a certain way to try to truly show you the consequences of one action, and how it can lead to multiple actions resulting in something

In this ads case the target audience is the more experienced. The ad depicts a man with three legs taking a photo. This alludes to the fact that with this great of image stabilization in this lens people will not even need a tripod in order to keep your pictures clear. You become a human tripod when you use this lens. This plays into ethos, the ethical appeal is to the fact that the man in the ad looks like a photographer. From the gear he carries to the setting he is in, if you took away the words people would instantly believe he is a photographer. But this is where the ad might even be lacking. Although a great deal of credibility might go to this man for looking like a professional it might turn some people away. If you think about people wanting cameras you not only have professionals but you also have moms and dads wanted to take pictures of their kids and special moments. This ad is hard to relate to if you are not an experienced