Formulate Opinions and Ideas
People buy whatever they are being told from the media. How
powerful is that? “Mass media has changed the dynamics of the society for the
worse. The greatest power of mass media is social persuasion” (Murshed, n.d.).
That is exactly what the graphic above represents. A grown man is sitting there
being spoon fed by the media. The media has the ability to find a weakness in
people and exploit it while at the same time those people are thinking they are
being helped.
The media has taken this and leveraged itself to become a
sort of “checks and balances” between the transfer of information and the
general viewers in society. The only bad thing about that is that even the
modern day media can be manipulated. This will cause the media to focus its
attention on the small social issues, magnifying them to be a lot bigger and of
more importance than necessary while the real issues get neglected. This sort
of “brain-washing effect comes from a society that is waiting to be spoon fed
any information without fact checking or looking for additional sources. We
have gotten so used to listening to whatever someone says to us and following
blindly.
Reference:
Murshed, M. (n.d.). Mass Media and
Its Influence. Retrieved March 05, 2017, from http://www.academia.edu/4188608/Mass_Media_and_Its_Influence
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