The media influences our lives more than we notice. We try be unsusceptible to the media's influences but we fail, we do not even notice our failures. A lot of the time we choose not to notice, we say to ourselves "Oh, the media doesn't affect me. I am in control of all my views and opinions." But what we don't realize is that, that is just us covering up what the media's done. We try to hide the fact, and maybe we don't even know how they've affected us but every time we watch a commercial or look at an ad we are affected. The media also creates and maintains many stereotypes. They constantly use certain marketing techniques to create these stereotypes. In television shows this is obvious, many TV shows maintain all different types of stereotypes. For example, the show Family Guy, while I find it hilarious and enjoy it a lot, the show maintains certain stereotypes society has created. The media has always played a role in creating and maintaining stereotypes, I do not see the end to this in the near future.
The media has an excessive amount of power to persuade the public's opinions and views on the world. The media has the ability to show the public certain things while omitting others. That ability alone presents a huge margin for abuse. Since the media has the ability to omit certain stories, or facts from their news reporting we the public are unable easy access to accurate, unbiased new coverage. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Now we must take a look at who controls the media. All the major television news stations are on networks that I'm sure have many political ties. The people who run the television networks that these media outlets are on have a lot of power.
The media uses its power in negative ways a lot of the time. The media is an effective tool that is used to manipulate people's opinions in certain ways. The media leaves out a lot of important facts and purposely directs the viewers to certain events. The media is influenced by bias and opinions way too much to be an effective, objective tool that the public can use without worrying that their news is altered to persuade them in certain ways.
Bush uses the media to his advantage all the time. They government gives stories to the media that it wants shown. Those stories allow the government to alter our perception on the world and events going on in certain ways. These things don't always have to be huge alterations. They can be as small as leaving out a crucial fact. Bush's war on terrorism only worked because of the terror he instilled in the public. Bush, along with his cabinet and the media are terrorists, throughout the entire War on Terrorism they have said things to make us the American people afraid of what might happen or what could happen. If you notice every couple months Bush, or someone working for him releases information saying that there is a big possibility of a terrorist attack on some city, and then they push up the terrorist warning color a level for the time being. Then after a couple weeks, after we've forgotten about it, they move the warning level down. They are doing this to keep this constant terror in the American people, so that they can justify what they do and get us to approve of what they're doing.
On top of this type of terror the government is utilizing against us, the media and the government have overlooked a lot of problems. We are to busy concentrating on other peoples issues that we have no even begun to deal with our own issues. For example rape statistics, child abuse, education standards, and homeless. We have so many issues that our society just overlooks and the blame goes to the media. The media hardly even touches upon these topics anymore, our views are being filtered to where they want them. We don't have control over what news we see, we are just being "spoon fed" whatever they want us to see. It's horrible that this tool that has such a great potential to affect so much in the world is being abused to change the ways we think and what we see.
For me a good film is defined by how the story is told
visually. I enjoy watching movies that have an interesting
use of cinematography. If a film is just shot in one style
throughout the entire film then I find it annoys me, I might
still enjoy the plot, but visually I am bored. When a director
takes a story and films it in an interesting way that appeals to
me more than a film that is just shot in one way. I think
what makes a good film is the directors ability to tell a story
completely, this includes the visual component as well as the
sound and whatever else a director may use.
I think the best film would be one in which the director
never needs to use dialogue or writing to setup a scene in a
way which the audience can understand. This also applies to
other things the director may decide to leave out. The
saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” holds true for
film as well. I would rather see a visually stunning film than
a film in which it is visually boring even if it has the best
script to back it up.
The media is an entity unto itself. It is a living, growing, developing entity. The media is an industry that is focused around societies interest in it. The media is a very powerful entity; it has the power to control the way people think. The media influences every aspect of our lives; it influences what we like, how we act, and what we look like. It's built around its ability to affect the population of people who it is targeting. The media is everything from the news to advertisements. We don't go one day without seeing something that the media has planted there to influence us in someway or another.
I would say it is one of the most powerful entities that exist. Its power runs not only through our social lives, but also in the government as well. The media influences political events, they can easily affect who gets publicity and who does not. At the same time the government plays a huge roll in controlling the media. Certain media organizations are funded or support certain political figures or parties; therefore they can easily be swayed to show support for certain political parties. The media is dependent on the public’s interest as well as the public being dependent on what the media makes. It is a cycle, that continues until the public looses interest in the shows or whatever, and then the media adapts itself to the public and creates shows that they will then watch.
Media is completely intertwined in our lives, it is hard to go one day without seeing something that is influenced by the media. The media is all over, on the street there are advertisements, on the news we are influenced by the media, the radio, magazines, news papers, and much more. They are all tied to the media in one way or another, there is no escaping these things. Media is everywhere, and affects our lives daily without us even knowing it.