Mass Media and Public Agenda

Mass media greatly shapes the public’s agenda of issues. Because the news companies decide what to show and what not to show, they are ultimately in charge of what we see as issues. For example, we rarely see on television or on the internet what is really going on in the war. The news reporter’s choose to limit what we see so that we don’t worry as much about these important issues.
Although the media shapes the public’s agenda of issues, I don’t think that this is something that will ever be resolved. Because there is so much news to report, the news reporters have to limit what we see due to the fact that there is simply not enough time to tell all the news that is going on in the world.