Tuesday, 2 October 2012

#8 Effects of Media

Media can be expressed in a lot of ways may be it on television, radio, computer or even news articles.  Media plays a vital role in our lives. Everyday we gather information coming from media whether it may be true or not. With the absence of media, it would make our lives plain and dull.

To me media can be considered a trend setter, it is in the way of media where we can see the latest styles, latest songs, latest games and many more latest stuff. It is in media where we would know what is happening around us and also what is happening around the world. But the media is sometimes bias, they sometimes change on what really happened and add their comments towards a certain situation and thus results to a different outcome on what really happened. For example is the case of Juan Fransisco Larranaga, he was arrested without a warrant for the reason of kidnapping and murdering two girls. The media eager for a scapegoat dragged his name on the mud. News reports published the worst of his photos and painted him to be a monster. In this way media somewhat took away his humanity in order to feed the mass hungry with vengance. It is just in our hands on how to view media, it may be in a positive way or in a negative way.