Does entertainment media control society?
Which is more accurate?
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Ziggy wrote...
I think the poll isn't entirely accurate. Media pushes for propaganda and to weigh the scale to the way corporations, politicians, and parties want viewers to see it. That doesn't create a world where people cannot think for themselves, but it does lead to a world of misguided people who rely on the source of what they think is credible news to in fact be skewed and distorted in the way they want the viewers to see it.However it's the viewers responsibility then to get up from the couch and find out facts for themselves.
I was referring to entertainment-based media (like movies and tv-shows), but you bring up a good point about the news media. They certainly distort the way viewers see the news, and they do have control over society through the new media. They present the facts in such a way that you would be stupid to not agree with them, because they leave out opposing facts crucial to the issue. If kids were fighting about something and are explaining their case to their mom, they purposely report the facts in a way that benefits them. It's funny, but this is a perfect example of what the news media does. You already said it perfectly:
"However it's the viewers responsibility then to get up from the couch and find out facts for themselves."
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It depends on the type of media. If you're talking about TV shows and movies, I think it gives a person an idea or two, but control? No way. It's too miniscule, and what we mostly see are based on fantasy, the average human can obviously tell that they can't throw some fire ball.
Entertainment can get people to follow a certain topic, and some becoming overly obsessed(Celebrity news, pop hits like Bieber, Twilight), but that's honestly more along the lines of a market tactic, pick something that goes for a specific demographic. You provide something with every possible demographic, and you have a very distracted society.
The second media is the news. Now this one can definitly control peopele, considering it controls information that we are told, or rather, informationm that isn't told.
It can easily twist words, and just to make something so ever interesting, may spice something up with exagertaion, tension, and drama. You see something shocking go on, and you knly find out that it's something more, a crime against humanity that someone was shot and his wallet was missing.
Hell, I even blame our societies desesitization on the media. You ever notice how the can talk about something as depressing as someone being killed, and then the next thing you see, smiles for ways to groom your dog. I find it sickining, knowing that we are purposly downplaying the significance of a humans life.
Pretty much, the can control on how peopel, or how a majority of them, will react to how an event is displayed, and can easily make them pick a side if they can make someone out to be the bad guy.
Entertainment can get people to follow a certain topic, and some becoming overly obsessed(Celebrity news, pop hits like Bieber, Twilight), but that's honestly more along the lines of a market tactic, pick something that goes for a specific demographic. You provide something with every possible demographic, and you have a very distracted society.
The second media is the news. Now this one can definitly control peopele, considering it controls information that we are told, or rather, informationm that isn't told.
It can easily twist words, and just to make something so ever interesting, may spice something up with exagertaion, tension, and drama. You see something shocking go on, and you knly find out that it's something more, a crime against humanity that someone was shot and his wallet was missing.
Hell, I even blame our societies desesitization on the media. You ever notice how the can talk about something as depressing as someone being killed, and then the next thing you see, smiles for ways to groom your dog. I find it sickining, knowing that we are purposly downplaying the significance of a humans life.
Pretty much, the can control on how peopel, or how a majority of them, will react to how an event is displayed, and can easily make them pick a side if they can make someone out to be the bad guy.