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In the American culture, the population prides itself on the freedom our country supplies. Recent years, media has become the infrastructure of how we communicate, notify the public, and advertise. It created a whole new world that we’ve come love, but has this love turned into an addiction? After watching the Consuming Kids video, I have to agree with some points that were made. Yes, kids are becoming addicted to consuming what they see through media. Yes, some of media is flooded with R-rated subjects that are inappropriate for kids. Although I understand how the producers of the short film see the bad in media, there is also pros that outweigh the cons. I do not agree with their Authoritarian view on mass media and how they disagree with the first …show more content…

The focus was on these kids playing with toys they seen on television, but decided not to show how it would affect these toy companies if they were no longer aloud to advertise. So what would happen? Sales would drop and hardworking citizens will lose their jobs. Another horrifying fact is, that without this mass media we would be holding the kids back from evolving. Kids need to be subjected to some media (not all), so they can learn and grow as a new generation. Children are so good with computers and phones that most actually have to show their parents to use them, and if that doesn’t express how intelligent kids are becoming then I don’t know what does. After watching Consuming Kids, I felt upset that they would starve their freedom that is protected by the constitution and that they forget to understand how without mass media, millions (if not billions) of people here in America can and would be affected. We need to take responsibility over our children and stop blaming the media. The media does not control us, we control

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