Reed's G Band Media Log

How the Media Manipulates Society

The media for the past fifty years has become the most important tool in society. Television, Radio and other form s of the media have become the way to communicate in the world. As of the past thirty years, the media has become a tool of communication and manipulation of the public and the society its apart of. Media has a small power on people even if people who don't follow trends and don't fall into the trap that the tv's and the radios provide, it has a small hold including the obession with celebrities and the obession with the idea of peopl in turmoil like trials and things like that.

This idea that the media has become a tool for public relations and such came at time when movie and music stars became these larger than life figures. When the stars become these figures, people become infatuaed with them. Soon, they begin to stalk them and the media starts this frenzy with them but documenting t their life and stalking them as well. This idea the media perpetuates is rthe idea that you must love them not for their work, but their pretty little million dollar faces and their mediocre acting. The times when acting was just acting is gone and that the idea of the "Minute celebrity" is in.
The idea that the media has toward the idea of making decisions. The media creates this propaganda and the media creates the answer for you and all the decisons in the world. Depending on how much they paid for the commerical, they tell you how to vote. You wanna know what to wear, dress like your favorite celebity, they do that for you by picking up magazines. Feeling bad about your self image, look at the magazines to see pictures of "perfection"