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The Negative Effects Of The Media Affects Children

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The media can manipulate the youth’s ideas and thoughts and make them conform to the thoughts and ideas to those of the advertisers. Assuming that the media does not care for the interest of the youth ,and children are susceptible to be manipulated because they have not fully formulated their own opinions and ideas on certain subjects, therefore their premeditated conceptions are able to be changed easily because they can be influenced.Thus, the media can negatively affect the youth and their viewpoints on controversial issues, their minds are still young and forming, so they will believe whatever people say without doing further research for themselves to know it is factual or not.
The media is not looking out for the best interest of the youth. Advertising in the media can bring upon misinterpretation in a child’s mind. Children are exposed to advertising all day, whether it is on the television, their phone, or advertisements around the city “the advertisers have strategies to advertise their products to children”(Barve G, Sood A, Nithya S, Virmani T). The media puts false images or ideas in their minds making the children believe something that isn’t true. The media does not care how it affects the child, but they should. It affects the children negatively because it is not an accurate depiction of what they are advertising. Furthermore, all the advertising indeed has some effects on children because “research has stated that young children (in an age group of 8

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