Today, the entertainment industry plays a key role in American society. Television, internet, radio, music, and news are all the main forms of mass media. Mass media has overtime been sought to have a critical influence on society. I feel obliged to have this topic to research and find the true answer to whether the media has a positive or negative effect on society.
One of the most common and useful types of media today is the internet. With the advancement of technology and the computer the internet has become the world’s most productive and useful tool ever created. However, this useful tool has also been able to be manipulated by people for inappropriate use. Cybercriminals as they are called are usually sexual predators, porn addicts, and stalkers. The internet can be used to find your next job or your next crime victim.
The daily news media was sought for long to be the most innocent of media influence. The news media displays the events in society whether good or bad and has become more focused on selling the amount of views rather than focusing on the content itself. Today, newspapers and radio show’s gossip and exaggeration has shown to manipulate society’s images of our world. This results in aggression and disgust for American society.
The most influential type of media of all is music. This form of entertainment is the most embraced around the world. Music can bring pleasure or it can bring disgust. Today, it has an impact on society, especially in youth violence. Crimes among teens are sought to be cause by lyrics and messages in music. Jeh Jeh Pruitt says, “Music should remain an art form and not a way of life”. This should be brought back to reality as teens tend to emulate what they hear in music and allow inappropriate things to be accepted.
Early television in the “Roaring Twenties” was first developed to provide citizens with news in societal news. It then developed into a form of entertainment, airing shows centering the common image of American life. This day in time television goes beyond mirroring society and travels outside our imagination for new ways to sell images to us. Screen directors and creators sought to sex and violence to be money makers of the industry. This results in its viewers to act more aggressive and emulate what they see on TV. This soon problem soon became known as media violence.
This entire market has been able to sell even the most inappropriate types of media. Now, the media industry has become an unstoppable train that will continue through time to depict our images of the world and sell it back to us.
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