First let’s start with the downsides of our media. Our media censors us and desensitizes us to our own society. Lets take for example the news, in news the stories that air are stories that include blood and guts. Why? Because those stories reflect the morals of society. We would rather actually see someone slashed, shot,

run over, or cut than be asked to imagine what happened. The reason for preferring violent images comes from and stems from movies. It is not a good action flick unless someone loses their life or good guy, bad guy. It is what we are used to. Even in the fifties there was Zorro and the masked ranger. The good guy always had to win no matter what. This way of thinking is where the media gets their ideas.

Overall media is a good form of communication and reinsures that this country would not survive without it if you took it away from them right now, but if we never had media in the first place, this might have a different answer. Media is all around and you can never get away from it. Always be aware of what they are saying, but do not take their word as Gospel. They are just expressing the same right all of us have. Just remember to express your own.

That is the overall what media can do to a society as a whole, but let me tell you what my opinion of the media is. Sometimes they go a little over board, but overall they do their job. Some instances they seem to always try to find the answer and end up BSing a little bit too long. And most the time they do not know when to stay out of peoples business. What I think is very interesting of our media, and what I am going to focus on is publicity in the media. We have learned in our society that no publicity is bad publicity. And the best example of that is Eminem. About a year or so ago they were criticizing him for his lyrics and that kids should not listen to him because he is a gay basher, wife beater, killer, etc. But in reality he never has done any of it, but expresses himself in his music. Everything they said about him good or bad boosted his records sales tenfold. Why? Because parents heard a little part of his song and told their kids that they could not li!

sten to him. But of course what are kids going to do if you tell them that they cannot have it. They will some how or another get their hands on it, whether it be from another kid or buying it themselves. And that is exactly what happened. He got the news press after him, the news media after him, MTV did a interview with him, and all because parents did not like his lyrics. My response to them is then do not listen to him and do not by his records. The only way a music artist makes any money is if the records sell. Now, on the other hand, if

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