~ Neil Postman.

Media is considered to be a window to the world, as well as an opportunity for learning. It has evolved from simple text in the papers, to voices on radios, to voices with pictures in television and movies, to the very broad, information packed Internet. “By definition, mass communication is a process in which professional communicators design and use media to disseminate messages widely, rapidly, and continuously in order to arouse intended meanings in large, diverse, and selectively attending audiences in attempts to influence them in a variety of ways” (Curtis, Anthony R., 1). Television is the most popular type of mass communication and a vital source from which most Americans receive information, writes John Seel, a proud member of World Journalism Institute and the headmaster at The Cambridge School of Dallas (19). Religion is where billions of people invest their hopes, dreams, beliefs, and most importantly, money. The greedy, selfish minds of our world see this not as a way to fix

Money, in a capitalist American society is becoming a religion of its own, promoting disregard and misuse of the true religions. “Capitalism has a deity: the ‘invisible hand’ that keeps the world moving in accordance with the inviolate rules of the sacred ‘market’. It has an ecclesiastic hierarchy consisting of banker and financier cardinals at the top, politician priests, judges and scholars of the economic cannon in the middle and the great, genuflecting rest of us at the bottom” (La Habla, 1). Money is substituting G-d, and business speculations are replacing the holy teachings. Man has completely given in to notion of Capitalism, as if it was the forbidden fruit. Religion has fallen into the seduction of capitalism as well. Many Americans are more concerned with how much money they are making rather than the morals and principals they use to gain that money. In one of the forums I have created to research this topic and views of fellow Americans, a question was asked – whether religion in America has fallen into the hands of Capitalism? “The majority of religions teach that material possessions are worthless, that one day they will just pass away. But we, as Americans, put too much emphasis on material wealth,” wrote Jason Chambers as a response to the posted question (Forum). “Tragically in today’s world,” writes Mohamed Khodr, “humanity has surrendered its faculty of reason and independent thought to the monopolizers of image, sound bytes, and crass commercialism. Materialism for the ‘me’ has supplanted the Morality for the ‘us’” (1). This brings us back to the initial topic: the corruption of religion on television. Many outstanding religious people in our society perform deeds that will be doomed far from moral behavior. “One example of the many: the media mogul Rupert Murdoch is a Christian who is running much of world’s media and making [huge amount] of money in the process. He uses his (admittedly endearingly non-politically correct) papers to promote his own business interests. If grabbing cash means having to be an apologist for communist China’s murderous treatment of its own people, those of Tibet, then he is not one to let Christian faith to get in the way! The reason for Murdoch’s co-towing to despicable dictators? His worship of cash” (Philosophy: Religion of Money). Money is what drives people to sin, to disregard their beliefs, to even turn their backs on G-d. If the love of money is the root of all the evil, then American society has created the evil itself by placing amassing money as the number one thing on their “to-do list.” Perhaps if people would not be so concentrated on money and p

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