The media is corrupting our society. do you agree?


Is anyone else as tired as I am about hearing how the media is corrupting our youth in so many ways? I think I've heard every complaint from the media pushing unhealthy images and causes anorexia to the media pushes violent behavior and causes kids to kill other kids to skewing information and lying.
Do people really believe that other humans are just so weak-willed that they will do anything they see on television or in the movies?

I think that the media is not entirely responsible, but you must admit that they do hold a lot of power in getting people to believe what they want. Sure, it is up to parents and other local role models to affect children and what they believe. It is not video games and violent media that causes the recent virginia tech shooting, but the accessibility to the materials that causes school shootings. If the media is making a big deal about terror tactics, well it is going to be a lot easier to scare people to get them to do what you want to do. The media can be silenced and limited, restricted and filtered, but you must admit, especially in the age of MTV when teenagers just want to fit in and be accepted, that the media posseses a lot of power in swaying public opinion.

Now I'm not saying everything I saw was rainbows and sunshine. Watching movies such as SAW 3 it didn't make me violent just because I was watching violence; they were movies.
Media could have focused on one of the most violent bloody months in Iraq, but that was stemmed and covered up with britney spears shaving bald. Make a choice and when the media is posting something that is so stupid, change the channel. Ruin their airtime and stop watching. Stop listening to the media. Make your own choice.



Media puts out "what sells" in order to control what people think, thus controlling future sells. Obviously, the Barbie company isn't going to put out the punky make-your-own-decision Barbie doll when it could put out the do-what-every-other-girl-is-doing Barbie doll. The next time Barbie puts out another doll who is more likely to buy the doll? Someone who has been influenced to make their own decisions or follow a crowd?

hence, my point is that media plays a small extent in corrupting people's mind set. the final call still depends largely on human's central neuro system. In this case, how can we consider media corrupting the public when actually the final decision is up to us. lets stop finding excuses at this very moments and strengthen our mental ability