Mass Media's Influence On Social Class

Media is now one of the most popular ways of receiving news and enjoying our favorite television shows. Media has been used to help unify the nation by allowing people on the West Coast and people from the East Coast to listen to the same baseball game on the radio. This help to build the vast American culture to unify all the people as one. Media has also helped alert people of disasters and allowed families to move apart from each other and still keep constant contact with each other. Although Media has helped a lot in many different ways it has also cased just as many disasters. It has even changed the way people look at other people. Media can be used to spread massive lies that are believed by the average American. This will lead to many false views and even now the way we see our social class system. The lower classes have very different views on the …show more content…
Without being about to compete with the upper class schooling only a few lower and middle class students make it into the upper class, leading the rest to stay in their class or even drop further down. “The truth is that the rich are getting richer and that the gulf between the rich and the poor continues to widen” Kendall (431) The upper class may be using media to control the average American into spending more money than they have. They spend their money at businesses owned by the upper class, making the upper class more wealthy leaving the middle class with little to nothing left. the only way to break free from this trap American must stand together and fight for the right of proper more modern forms of teaching. “The products of work should not be like everybody else and should show individuality.” Anyon (145) Only when critical thinking is known as common knowledge will the average American be able to know real form fake, allowing them to break free from their social