Monstrosity In The Media Essay

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The media has affected many people lives with it’s manipulatively exposure of relationships, business, careers, and personal life. Many people know who the president elect of United States is for 2017, it is Donald Trump. The question then rises to ask who voted for Trump and who voted for Hillary? What source of influence manipulated your mind into voting for the candidate that you did? Who created the monstrosity that was able to manipulate the mind through the use of media? With what morals were you raised with? There are certain classes such as high, middle, and low class that we have in society that define who we are but who is the government to define the human kind. The media creates monstrosity out of people because they are being manipulate …show more content…

Not many I would say because many people like to gossip and that is the life style of many people, so they feed off lies of famous individuals to people to create conversation because it’s what they do. In the movie Gone Girl, Amy friends were entertained by her disappearance that they began rescue search teams and community meetings. These community meeting would serve to make accusations to the wrong person as well to come up with more lies. Since her friends were not well informed of who Amy really was it was easier for her friends to guilt her husband. The information given out by the media cannot always be true it can be deceiving and confuse the public. Making false assumptions creating monsters out of the people who are not well informed, in the journal Media Literacy: Upfront and online it states “If we accept the notion that media are an integral part of contemporary life. It would then seem logical that we, as educators, should give instructional attention to the media culture that influences our young people.”(Ferrington), as seem in Gone Girl many of her fans got the best out of them due to what the media was portraying about her husband victimizing him as the murder of Amy death but her audience did not really investigate what kind of person she was instead they trusted the media in knowing the facts for them. It also happens in society where scandals are said …show more content…

The media affects everyone’s life in this generation that we are living in because at every tilt of head we make we see a person on their phone. Technology has evolved quite drastically in this generation and it’s impossible to miss out on any information but there are some times were information isn’t true. Research behind news is important to make in order to know if we are being informed correctly without agreeing with everyone. After Amy returned home she was not investigated any further than the information she has said due to the amount of publicity that her case had gotten. Amy said that she was held hostage by an old admirer and she made sure that arrangements were made for it to all look real. Nick being her husband did not believe anything she told because he knew his wife. Nick wanted the investigator that incarcerated him for his false accusations and his lawyer to find proof that she was lying but they both refused. Nick lawyer and the police investigator told him to just go home and enjoy his wife. In the journal Cognitive and Emotional Media Effects it states, “Rather than transmitting a message, the media suggest a message through framing, that is, they present recipients with a rough draft of the case that recipients complement by themselves (by preferring fitting information or by

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