“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Malcom X. The mind is a confusing and complex part of a human that processes every thought, it thinks, feels, judges, and produces what we like and don’t like. Every day the mind is introduced to different elements the influence how we dress, act, and even eat. The media is the majority of where all of these influences come from. However, are these media influences good, bad, or both. The focus here will be on the media of food. McDonald’s for example is one of the most well-known fast food chains around the world. They come out with new advertisements all the time telling us to buy the new McSomethin’, do people really go out and buy these?
Now the McDonald’s advertisements are there in the first place to promote the product they are selling, it could be a new kind of fries, a burger or anything else. The first thing that pops into people’s heads, or at least mine, when they hear the word McDonald’s is the theme song. “Ba da ba ba ba I’m lonin’ it.” And also a mix of red and yellow flash in their heads with the logo “M”. There is one specific commercial I would like to look at and it called McDonald’s Lonely Hearts. It starts off by …show more content…
The ad stars with a divided screen with a little boy on one side and a little girl on the other. The boy is set in the past were everything is old and the girl is set in the future. The boy passes the girl some items from his side to hers and, as they get passes they become new. The last item that is passed through is one of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets the voiceover person states it is new and improved. It is made with 100 precent white meat chicken and, no artificial colors, flavors, or
Now the McDonald’s advertisements are there in the first place to promote the product they are selling, it could be a new kind of fries, a burger or anything else. The first thing that pops into people’s heads, or at least mine, when they hear the word McDonald’s is the theme song. “Ba da ba ba ba I’m lonin’ it.” And also a mix of red and yellow flash in their heads with the logo “M”. There is one specific commercial I would like to look at and it called McDonald’s Lonely Hearts. It starts off by …show more content…
The ad stars with a divided screen with a little boy on one side and a little girl on the other. The boy is set in the past were everything is old and the girl is set in the future. The boy passes the girl some items from his side to hers and, as they get passes they become new. The last item that is passed through is one of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets the voiceover person states it is new and improved. It is made with 100 precent white meat chicken and, no artificial colors, flavors, or