Media Stereotypes

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A very popular topic is how the media is trying to shape men, women, lesbians and gays into a certain way of thinking. Many people put the blame on media for putting this pressure on today’s society. On the other hand, a lot of people blame society for believing the media and not being “media literate”. With the increase of technology in our day to day lives, the power of the media is growing exponentially. With the media growing exponentially, more people are believing anything and everything that is posted on the Internet without doing proper research. For example, as of January 11th, 2016, a picture was posted on Facebook about the new Powerball jackpot of 1,300,000,000. A picture is circulating that if that jackpot is divided by the United …show more content…

There are many myths and realities about the media, and one of the biggest ones is that the media only exists to make profit. The media will publish anything and everything to make money. The way to make money, however, is getting people to read and believe what is being published. According to the True Activist, around 75% of media is advertising, which means that advertisers dictate and control the media. Advertisers make commercials and photos for their products, and hope that society believes that this product will do what is advertised. This claim is not guaranteed by anything, but society still believes that what they claim. Reality TV shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians are claimed to be real life, when in reality, they are scripted and full of continuity errors, says Business Insider. Some shots are recorded earlier or later than what they are depicted to be. These shows are claimed to be the real life of someone, but they are really stitched shots of what is supposed to be their real …show more content…

In the article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, highlights the idea that with the invention of the Internet, we no longer have to work for many things. With just a few clicks away, we can find the information we were looking for instantaneously. Society no longer has to go through libraries and do research for a certain topic. With this, however, yields problems. The attention span of the average human drops down to just eight seconds, via a study performed by Microsoft. One can say that since our attention span has dropped so much, the media can catch our attention with something very small, and we don’t feel the need to look into what is being claimed. We read what is being said, and just believe it. That is what we are evolving into: the girl from that State Farm commercial who believes everything on the Internet is

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