The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?

The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?
I totally agree with the statement that media is corrupting our society. Firstly, let me start by defining the statement. Media is a form of mass communication. Newspapers, magazines, direct mail, billboards, bus signs, radio, television and internet are some important media that carry advertising.Corrupting means seduce into corrupt practices which are harmful to the mind of morals. A society is a group of human beings distinguishable from other groups by mutual interests, characteristic relationships, shared institutions and a common culture.

No one can ever deny the importance of media in our society nowadays. It keeps us well informed of things and events happening around us. It covers us to all aspects, slowly and without warning it influences us, our opinion, our action and our mind set in the negative way. The proof of these actions is obvious in our lives.The media corrupts the society by using propaganda. It influences the mind of people by making up stories and publishes it as though it’s real so that the society will believe whatever that is published and fall into the thinking trap. For example, the propaganda film below is about the evil communists. It was said that children are taken early and moulded to fit the machine. It also contains false claims such as Americans funded Stalin’s regime and his conquest over Germany.
links :

1. http://messageinamatrix.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/chomsky-on-propaganda/


2. http://www.fat-controller.com/site/content.cfm?id=94B1E5DC-E636-79FF-71FC1707E95E4C10

Another evidence for media corrupting our society is shown when the author of the article try to influence the way people think by voicing and strongly support his opinion about Bush. The article concerns political corruption and portrays a negative picture of Bush. To be honest, I do not have any opinion about this before reading the article but after reading it, I somehow convinced by the author. The author is very careful when voicing out his opinions by using bombastic words and backed his story.


link: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/13/493/