How Does Media Affect Society

The media is known as a major institution in society and plays a critical role when comes to certain subjects that matters. We can all conclude that the media provides us about who we are as a nation and also have the power to present, prevent, and affect information that is critical towards society. The media affect racism on the way they depicted individuals of the society. This can be presented in many different factors such as criminal activity, religion and several other topics. Also, the specific words used while presenting information about a particular race can affect the way society view each other. For example, saying "They" were the criminals; "they" were dirty, unkempt; "they" caused trouble and disease. Using the word “they” would be generalizing against the whole entire race. In reference to the 9/11 attack on the United States, the media pained a picture that anyone of a brown skin color or wore garments commonly worn in the middle east or south Asia were considered a terrorist.

According to the YouTube Video, …show more content…
The video was staged with real actors who were just simply shopping and was asked to leave the store because of, “the type of people they are”. Individuals became angry and furious at the manager for discriminating against African American Individuals. Although, this was not a real situation and it was staged it presented the idea on certain individuals of a specific race who can be discriminated against because of bias information provided by the media and other sources. For example, the news would present information in the type of way that can affect people of our society. Sometimes information and news only occurs when an African American Individuals commit a crime. I believe the media can manipulate information and influence society to generalized agonist certain