The Media and the Uneducated Masses Essay -- Media Argumentative Persu

The Media and the Uneducated Masses         In the United States or any countrified with favorable or democraticgovernment, liberty of the media is essential.  However, many analystsbelieve that freedom granted to the media gives it power that whitethorn be usedabusively, power to charm the macrocosm.  These critics are against a sortof, Lesse-fairre attitude of the government towards the media.  At theformer(a) end of the table however, some feel that freedom given to the mediamay go unchecked, for it is the people that influence the media and controlthat power.  Perhaps the truth lies someplace in between...         James Hallow hears to approach this issue in his wreak WhyAmericans Hate the Media.  In this text Hallows examines the evolution ofthe media and its relationship to the humanity it caters to.  In the thirties,media mimicked sleepytime Sunday morning political debates that o ne wouldwatch on the public access channel.  They, in many ways were consideredboring.  Networks were growing to a greater extent interested in attracting theiraudiences.  As the years advanced and technology followed, media began victorious different approaches to arouse the public.  Conflicts on televisionwhere seen as a to a greater extent(prenominal) interesting and productive approach to increasingratings.  After a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mudthrowing and even emotion out of its political guests.  Politicians who beallowed air-time to address questions presented by viewers and interviewers.  One major complaint however, was that the media was more interested inevoking a resp... ...nterpretations of data.  You may produce the news, but how you receive it may decide how you interpret it.But perhaps it may real be a symbiotic relationship between the twoentities.  It may be that the media manipulates the masses and the massesmanipulate the media.  It is true that the media could enhance how thepublic may feel towards a public figure or towards a recorded event.Television could make a person a superstar or villian at the whim of thepresentor through the use of rhetoric or just the data that was selectivelypresented to the intended audience.  But peoples slightest reactions in while can affect the medias presentation on the issue.  After all it is aharsh group of critics that one is trying to appeal to, therefore it is sincerely a delicate ever-changing balance between the desires of people and their hosts.