Abuse Of Power

Huxley mentions servitude almost desired by its prisoners, we can verify the extent of the power of influence of some methods that become accepted by society as necessary. It is not today that we see and know the strength that the media has, and this becomes clearer when through all this force it starts to instill in people an idea or even an already formed point of view on a subject. And note that when we refer to the media, we are actually referring to all of its forms of placement, whether it is spoken, written, televised or even made by virtual means and other means that are possible. It is not denied that the media has an odd relevance for the maintenance of a democracy; however, this does not mean that at the expense of this argument …show more content…
Whenever a certain subject lacks social support, and of course, with reciprocity between the media and the privileged with action, society is bombarded with news, reports, advertisements, which have the same objective, that is, to achieve the support of society. In recent years, driven by the diffusion of the media, especially among the so-called social classes of lesser economic power, the power of the media was even greater. All this influence and persuasion is especially evident, especially in the poorest part of society, since this one, formed mostly by people with little education, ends up taking as absolute truth everything that is transmitted, precisely because they do not have the means and or conditions to disagree with what is said. When all allowances have been made for variations within the industry, its most striking feature, and possibly its greatest problem, it is dominance by a small number of highly individualistic proprietors with their own personal interests and philosophy of …show more content…
Large media outlets are concentrated in the hands of only few owners who, although they do not have the same power and influence of other times, still decide what kind of information which society should receive and which ones should not, even with no journalistic relevance or because they do not attract the interest of the consuming public. Thus, in order for the media to be able to contemplate the plurality of ideas or, as Jürgen Habermas has suggested, approaching to be a privileged mechanism of the public sphere that generates visibility for the demands of different groups, it is necessary that issues such as democratization of Means of communication, restriction of the cross-ownership of media vehicles, regulation of programming and encouraging the emergence of community radios. On the other hand, it is important to note that changes within the mass media alone do not change reality. Using a Marxian term, the media is not an infrastructure that determines other social instances. It is innocuous to think of a better quality of media programming, for example, without fostering a social organization composed of citizens who have broad possibilities of developing critical thoughts or who do not have to worry about basic issues of existence. Therefore, taking into account that the media conditions and is conditioned by other areas, it makes no sense to speak of improvements in the large-scale