Mass media can have a huge effect on how people portray businesses and other people. Depending on the amount of coverage and bias they put on a certain event, they can have a tremendous influence on how society views it. Personally I feel that way too much attention is payed to celebrities in American culture.
Tiger Woods for example has been slammed by the media for months new due to his infidelities with his wife. All of his press conferences have been highest media priority, as well as his commercials in cooperation with Nike. There is no reason that Americans should be at all interested in what these high profile people do in their personal lives. Cheating in relationships is absolutely nothing new and happens every day in this country. However, when someone whos name we hear on TV do the same exact thing, millions of us are outraged and feel the need to speak out.
Similarly, many atheletes in recent years have been charged with crimes such as weapons possession. Again, a common crime that happens daily in cities all across America, and millions of us think it is our business to know all about it. Mass Media is way too prevelent in our culture today, and if feel that as a society we would be more productive if we weren't spending so much time being concerned with what complete strangers are up to.
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