In recent years the mass media's reach has spread all around the world. With this so has it's ability to influence that population. The media tells us what to buy, what to eat and drink, what to wear, what we should care about, and how we should live our lives. This is just not right to me. Our society bases everything from where we go to how we should look off the media. Now I'm not trying to say the the media is bad, just some aspects of the media. The media brings us news and entertainment but it also is a way of bring us ways to think. Many of the eating disorder cases have been attributed to the media showing images of models and superstars causing people to think that they are inadequate to said models and stars. The media as a whole also gives us things that they say we should be interested in. On the news there are always stories about some mishap that a star has had and I ask myself "Why should I care?" If you can give me one good reason why I should care that Charlie Sheen is on drugs or the Arnold Schwarzenegger had a kid with his maid then tell me and I'll give you ten reasons why it's non o my business and is uninteresting to me.
I despise what the media is doing to us as a culture. It sickens me sometimes thinking about all the people augmenting their bodies, starving themselves just to look like what they see on television. Now there are those that say people make all there own choices in life and falling for the media's manipulation is their own fault. I completely disagree. I think that no matter what you do or who you are your going to in someway fall for the media at some point because no one is immune to it's influence. There is almost nowhere where there is no connection to some sort of media and that makes all the more worse. There is so much stimuli and persuasion how could one not fall into the net of the media.
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