Mass Media's Agenda

The media has a huge impact on the public’s agenda. They ultimately decide what the world will see and what is important to them. Though we do have some say for they report on stories they know we will watch.

There is too much going on in the world for us to see everything, but the media decides what to show us. They tend to show the bad things that are going on for example the war or death of a public figure. Seldom do we see good actions that have been done on the news or if we do they are not very in-depth stories.

I think the media will continue to show what they choose to show us for they need to pick what will help their ratings. Granted we give them directions to go in ways of stories. And unfortunately this means showing all the worst of the worst for that is what many people want to see. So unless we make a drastic change in what we want to see then the media will continue to show us the bad things that will get them good ratings.