Mass media has one ultimate effect: influencing they way we live our daily lives and create views. Whether you agree or disagree with what is on the media, it will somehow influence you. In this respect, mass media can be a negative thing because it can put a false spin on whatever it wants. It can lead us to believe things that we may not really understand the whole truth behind. For instance with the recent health care bill, there has been so much slandering on each side that is very difficult to get an idea of what is really on the bill. People are arguing and protesting each other based off of these media messages, without fully understanding what they are arguing about.
Media also has the ability of delivering raw information to the world. For example during the Vietnam War, live television coverage outraged society back in the US, and it didn’t have a certain spin: the people could see exactly what was happening. I remember watching the events of 911 unfold live on TV when I was in the fifth grade. Without pictures like these, people may not become as involved with what is going on.
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