The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?
Yes, I agree to a very large extent that media today is indeed corrupting our society. It is clear that media is dominating our world in this modern era. Everyone is reliant on the media to obtain news from other countries or even news from their own country. Thus it is evident media today plays a great role in shaping up our society. What media feeds us is most like what we turn out to be as our generation is rapidly stepping into an era of visual culture where media dominates.Media manipulation is one of the many factors that cause corruption of our society. Media in the form of magazines portraying voluptuous women half naked at the front page as ‘hot’ and ‘sexy’ girls often appeal to young teenage girls, causing them to have the urge to be like these scantily-clad models. This in turn corrupts their minds in an extremely adverse manner. Such media also corrupts the minds of young male teens due to these WRONG sex appeals.
Media has also corrupted our society in that it has gradually, over the years, made more and more people interested in ‘juicy’ news that are at the expense of another’s reputation. A good example would be nefarious rumours about celebrities, made up by the media to attract readers. (http://perezhilton.com/topics/anna_nicole_smith/headline_of_the_week_weak_20070414.php) An example of such sources of media would be the above website. Hence is it not clear that our society is gradually corrupted by media and their underhand means to obtain monetary gains by ruthlessly producing nefarious news to attract readers?
http://soc.enotes.com/mass-media-article/44194
The above website is also a legitimate source as it supports my stand of our media today is corrupting our society. Media in the form of television is a sever cause of corruption as it makes teens today too overly-engaged in watching television and end up corrupting their minds with fantasies and non-realities showed in re-runs in televisions all the time!
Hence it is obvious that the harm done by media in its various forms is far more undesirable than one can ever imagine! It has gradually corrupted our society as time passed.
posted by Phoebe @ 7:08 AM
2 Comments:
Hmmm... neat work- but you've been blgging too much of the same thing over the past few weeks?
Media corrupt- make the news- social justice.
Oh yea- give a balanced view
=) Sorry if it sounds negative
haha no prob man. thanks for the comments! really appreciate it!
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