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

The Media and the Uneducated Masses         In the United States or every country with favorable or democraticgovernment, freedom of the media is essential.  However, many analysts remember that freedom granted to the media gives it occasion that may be usedabusively, power to influence the public.  These critics are against a sortof, Lesse-fairre attitude of the government towards the media.  At theother end of the table however, some feel that freedom effrontery to the mediamay go unchecked, for it is the citizenry that influence the media and controlthat power.  Perhaps the legality lies somewhere in between...         James H every(prenominal)ow attempts to approach this issue in his work WhyAmericans Hate the Media.  In this text Hallows examines the evolution ofthe media and its kinship to the public it caters to.  In the thirties,media mimicked sleepytime Sunday morning semipolitica l debates that one would fascinate on the public access channel.  They, in many ways were consideredboring.  Nedeucerks were ripening more interested in attracting theiraudiences.  As the years advanced and engine room followed, media begantaking different approaches to arouse the public.  Conflicts on televisionwhere seen as a more 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 explosive charge however, was that the media was more interested inevoking a resp... ...nterpretations of data.  You mayreceive the news, only how you receive it may decide how you interpret it.But perhaps it may actually be a symbiotic relationship between the twoentities.  It may be that the media manipulates the masses and the mass esmanipulate the media.  It is true that the media could promote how thepublic may feel towards a public figure or towards a recorded event.Television could make a person a hero or villian at the whim of thepresentor through the use of blandishment or just the data that was selectivelypresented to the intended audience.  But peoples slightest reactions inturn can affect the medias presentation on the issue.  After all it is aharsh group of critics that one is trying to appeal to, whence it isreally a delicate ever-changing balance between the desires of people and their hosts.