Mass Medi Helpful Or Harmful?

In mass media ;press, radio, film, and television succeed in taking the audiences minds off society and other cultural disasters. Although some people think mass media is needed for everyday citizens to get their voice heard and communicate with other countries, mass media consist of problems such as inaccuracies, wrong priorities and mis leading audiences with propaganda, which leads to social problems in cultures due to misconceptions on a sensitive topic. The media appears helpful at first glance but their true intentions are revealed when the need for money and views overrules reporting news that is beneficial to viewers. When news broadcasters compete to be the first to report on a topic and draw more attention to them selves for popularity purposes, they rush and do not get proper research on their topics which …show more content…
The presidential election showed both sides to the use of mass media argument. From one mass media was used to properly educate citizens about the candidates they could vote for in order for them to make an educated decision. From another view mass media effected the candidates because the election was such a controversial even due to the hate shared from republicans to democrats and vice versa. The different views of the parties has sparked outrage in big cities as media has corrupted the minds of these americans to start riots because of the democracy choice. People have taken advantage of their freedom of speech and the regular citizens that do not let anything effect them are not looked at to be talked to, to calm a