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

The Media and the Uneducated Masses         In the United States or any country with favorable or democraticgovernment, indep quitence of the media is essential.  However, many analystsbelieve that freedom granted to the media gives it power 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 given to the mediamay go unchecked, for it is the people that influence the media and controlthat power.  Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between...         mob Hallow attempts to approach this issue in his work WhyAmericans Hate the Media.  In this text Hallows examines the evolution ofthe media and its relationship to the public it caters to.  In the thirties,media mimicked sleepytime Sunday first light political debates that one wouldwa tch on the public access channel.  They, in many ways were consideredboring.  Networks were growing more interested in attracting theiraudiences.  As the historic period advanced and technology followed, media begantaking different approaches to arouse the public.  Conflicts on televisionwhere seen as a more interesting and productive approach to increasingratings.  after(prenominal) 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 direction however, was that the media was more interested inevoking a resp... ...nterpretations of data.  You mayreceive the news, but how you receive it may decide how you interpret it.But perhaps it may genuinely be a symbiotic relationship between the twoentities.  It may be that the media manipulates the masses and the massesmanipulate the med ia.  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 hero 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 inturn can affect the medias initiation on the issue.  After all it is aharsh group of critics that one is trying to appeal to, therefore it isreally a delicate ever-changing poise between the desires of people and their hosts.