Role of media in our daily life?
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In theory the media exists to keep the populace informed on current events and important communication from the government and law enforcement agencies. It is intended to be unbiased and factual.\n\nThe reality is just the opposite. The role of the media as it exists today is to control and manipulate the populace. Sometimes in accordance with government, sometimes in opposition to the government but always along its own world-view. The media exerts a heavy-handed and no-apologies slant on events with the ultimate intent of herding the masses like brainless sheep. Their method is based on entertainment. Insidiously infusing biased interpretation and unbalanced pseudo-facts with sensationalist glitz and flash, the media competes among itself to grab viewers/readers/listeners and then tells you only what it wants to. The consumer cannot trust the media's product as there is no base line for comparison. Some counter-media groups exist but they are just as unbalanced in their own way. It is unlikely that any human based media organization can exist as a totaly unbiased source of information. or if they were, no one would watch as it would be very dry. Consumers are conditioned to seek entertainment and expect a degree of excitiement in their information. \n\nI offer as example a local tv news story a few years ago involving a train wreck. Most viewers share in-common a human empathy for the victims and family of those effected and the tragedy of a father and daughter laying in the wreckage dead would be sad for all. An unbiased report would disscuss the facts in a cool and business-like fashion leaving the viewer to assess the meaning of the event on their own. Instead the tv station spent many minutes of air time focusing on the devastated mother who lost her entire family. Cameras with tight closeups of her tear streaked face and a reporter sticking his microphone at her asking the inane question, "how does this make you feel?" I suggest this reporter should have carried his microphone in a personal oriface that is apt not to see the light of day. A station that condones such a callous intrusion on an individual's grief is irresponsible. What message are they making? Are viewers so mindless that they need a tv reporter to tell them it is time to grieve? Sensationalist journalism aimed at gaining viewers and controlling the thoughts and actions of viewers along station policy. That is the role of media today in our daily lives.
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internet is useful these days.like geeting information very quickly from one compute to another .i has many benifit like railway reservation,sending mail,watching movie,your bank status checking,travel info ,it has been very good resource .so i can say that it is very useful in our life
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Radio reaches more people continuously through out the day( example. waking up in the morn radio alarm clocks. drives to store, work, in some offices, stores etc.)\nrepetitious commercials tend to get people to go where you want them to go.\n\nBut TV has the visual stimulation with the audio to get people to do more than radio.
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Well, you forgot to list the Internet, which trumps these hands down in my opinion, but if I did have to choose, I'd say newspaper. Its a little slower than the rest (most only have 2 editions), but the sheer number of words allows for a breath not capable on television or radio.  Magazines aren't regular enough (unless you were including daily bulletins).  Like I pointed out, the newspapers' limited frequency would put me at a slight disadvantage, but if I read it every day, I would be able to anticiapte most marketing and business trends (breaking news excluded, of coures).
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The media. Through spin and sensationalism they control the minds and emotions of the masses. They are the one international power that affects every civilized nation without exception and can induce riots, revolts, protests, public outrage, boycotts, or whatever else they wish.
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Our technology and communications is changing at a rapid rate.\n\nThink about the fact that when I was 3 years old, we had a black and white TV, a rotary dial telephone, a washing machine, an oven and a refrigerator.  We had a car and a truck.  I grew up on a farm.\n\nMy grandparents did not have TV, they had radio.  They had no cars.  \n\nMy first grade teacher graduated college - called normal school - in 1919.  Her father made saddles for a living.  When she started teaching, there were only a few cars on the road.\n\nOur society is changing because we are changing.  How many people do you know who make their living on a farm?\n\nIn 1996 how many people had personal computers?  How many people do not have them now?  Ten years ago, a computer was not a necessity in a home.  We haven't even touched on TV, satellites, and all of the choices available in how we use them.
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We wake up (usually by an alarm clock), we get ready for work, school etc (usually listening to the radio or watching TV), we go to work or school (usually by car, tube, train or bus) while listening to our ipods, chatting on our cellphones or watching our ipod TV's. At work we use computers and telephones. At lunch time, draw some money (from a cash point) and buy our lunch (at the till point), then we may do a spot of lunchtime shopping (on our credit cards), then we go back to work and send silly emails around the office or chat to cyber friends on msn or yahoo messenger. We travel back home and use our cells on the way to send texts, talk or listen to the radio. We prepare dinner (sometimes in a microwave) and watch TV or listen our stereo. We play computer games and watch movies, chat on the phone and on the Internet, and as it gets darker we use electricity to be able to see, we have a shower and get ready for bed.\n\nTechnology has made us complacent, lazy and shifted our focus on the important aspects of life. Because our every need is catered for in some way by technology, we get greedy and impatient for things that will further enhance our way of life. It has provided the most wonderful creations and things that we, at somepoint, would never have imagined, yet it has made us all vulnerable and open to the darker minds of our society and addicted to what we cant live without.\n\nTechnology has effected society by giving no boundery. It has created a people of instant touch-of-a-button satisfaction with more, more and more requested. If technology had not developed as fast as it had people would spend more time interacting in 'real-time' in person. Family and Community morals would be of more value as there wouldn't be such a variety of things to seclude and distance us.\n\nWhile technology can bring people closer and encourage people to spend time together, it seems that technology seperates generations. With each generation theres something new and cool that comes out that alienates the previous one. \nFor example \nRecord LPs - Cassette - CDs - MP3. \nVideo Tape - DVD. \nPen and paper - Typewriter - Computer - Laptop. \nWalkman - CDman - ipod. \n\nHowever, I love my phone, I love my computer and all the other things mentioned above! But its the fact that we rely so heavily on technology that makes us weak. Quite simply, with more technology comes more control of our society. And we are not the ones controlling it.
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Not a single one on television or radio. \n\nSome press adverts in targeted publications can be interesting, for example for tech devices.\n\nAn Adverts job tho is not to work directly, but when you next go to the store and see 2 different products, to choose the one you saw advertised. This is the subliminal message they deliver.
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I find it interesting that this comes as a question... when in my opinion.. it is so factual that violence portrayed on TV, movies and video games affects people's mind, specially children.   How we in this 'modern' times accept as natural viewing and being bombarded with violence and other stuff from TV.  I have personally stopped watching TV and you know.. I have gained so much in my life.. Instead of waisting my life plugged into the 'garbage tube' I have found renewed interest in music, arts, enjoying friends, exercise and the list goes on.  I have children, they don't live with me since I have been divorced, but when they come visit... the thing they know they are not doing is watching TV...  Sometimes we rent movies, but for me is easy to filter as much as possible what they are watching.  And yes there is violence and sex out there in the real world... but there is no need for us human beings to  get soaked in it 24/7 as we become couch potatoes and let life slip away... as zombies.  My kids and I  have a great relationship and they are always happy to come to my place... because always is an adventure... never knowing what is going on.. what we would do... or go see, experience, meet... in resume live... not by watching it on the screen.. but by experiencing first hand!  Good luck with your paper and hopefully you find some good references.
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well when media protrays the other country as a mortal enemy - like in the movie Border - it can't make the two countries closer...so media can sway Indo Pak relations...remember when the two countries were about to go to war, the media was so forceful about the devastating issue - that things got sorted out pretty fast.\n\nSo yes Media has a big role
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download movies/songs.  play games.  read the news.  chat with friends.  get into debates.  answer people's questions :D
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I don't even remember my Health class I took in middle school, a bit over ten years ago. Sad, really. I know more about the world by the internet. I don't have TV so I read the news and watch some TV clips on some sites.\n\nIf people learned to use the internet for what it is meant for: for research, and not chatting to some boy toys, they may learn a thing or two.
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Its a matter of culture on the first place.  Its everywhere- the environment and all the factors combined.  Its the society and how the society thinks. the mindsets of people, the influences, the method of upbringing a child, family social status (both parents have to work), etc.  I think the media is a factor but not as much as the social culture.  Religion- you have a point for the social behavior of americans requires them to work and work - and in many cases time for those things that truly matter are neglected to earn money.  I think understanding and controlling these things must begin at home for the foundation of one's personality (as I believe) begins in the basic unit of the society - the family and how they incorporate God in their lives.
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The world is full of lonely and sad people. because the word committment and caring are dissappearing from our vocabularies. Our media offers happiness in material posessions and physical pleasure and denounces anything else as a lie. Our sad and lonely people cannot see the truth because of the secular world and its whiz bang communication gizzmo's.
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Yes. Making headlines on media. Then media makes money out of it by selling their images and styles. They also the people bring new fashions and of course as a result of their employemnt, which is the core economic value.
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A lot of people get their news, weather, sports, entertainment (all the things that they used to get from the newspaper) on the internet.\n\nA lot of people have jobs that keeps them online all day.\n\nA lot of people have nothing better to do some days, so get online and look up something that interests them.\n\nSome people listen to their music, watch TV, watch videos and movies and do their reading on the internet.\n\nSome people read the help wanted and real estate ads online.\n\nPeople post their resume online.\n\nPeople order their food online.\n\nThere's too many more to list, but all in all, the internet probably saves us time--compared to the way we used to have to go to so many different places for our information and entertainment.
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Yes, check out \n\nwww.mediatakeout.com