How influential is the media?

[ShadowBoxing]

The Media is more influential to what you think, fear and feel than you will ever fully understand.

 

[E. Bison]

The media is capable of molding and changing minds and perspectives on personal and social matters like family, religion, life in general, education, and etc. Wrather than people just taking in information and making their own conclusion on it they expect the media to make up THEIR minds and make the conclusions for THEM. Nowadays, people are not capable of changing their own minds no matter how much evidence is against them because of media being to biased towards certains opinions and perspectives.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

The media is capable of molding and changing minds and perspectives on personal and social matters like family, religion, life in general, education, and etc. Wrather than people just taking in information and making their own conclusion on it they expect the media to make up THEIR minds and make the conclusions for THEM. Nowadays, people are not capable of changing their own minds no matter how much evidence is against them because of media being to biased towards certains opinions and perspectives.

This is exactly why I stay away from TV entirely...it helps I think.

 

[E. Bison]

This is exactly why I stay away from TV entirely...it helps I think.

It also makes you develop better sentence structuring.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

TV helps I laugh/cry.

 

[TheSumOfGod]

Well thanks to Stephen Colbert I bought a gun to prepare for the eventual bear invasion.

Don't worry, the Reptilians will kill the bears with their telepathy and their ray guns. But then, who will kill the Reptilians? I know who:

 

[jaguarr]

Again, read Marshall Macluhan sometime. The very way people think is partially set by the media.

I read some of Macluhan's stuff in college. Pretty fascinating.

jag

 

[Spiderpig]

The bulk of the UK population trust the TV more than their own Mother.

 

[Admiral_N8]

I find its the same with the Middle East. First Iraq was made out to be the bad guy nows it Iran. The media has helped increase the general public's fear of Arabs or anyone from the Middle East.

Iran is making itself the bad guy on its own.

 

[GNR]

The internet is probably the most influential outlet.

It influences people's buying decisions unlike anything else.

Comics,clothes,shoes,tech gear,furniture,dvds,cds,music,etc.