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, freedom 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 associateof, 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 cut backthat power.  Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between...         James Hallow attempts to approach this issue in his work WhyAmericans Hate the Media.  In this text Hallows examines the exploitation ofthe media and its relationship to the public it caters to.  In the thirties,media mimicked sleepytime Sunday morning political debates that one wouldwat ch on the public access channel.  They, in many ways were consideredboring.  Networks were maturation more(prenominal) interested in attracting theiraudiences.  As the years 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 a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mudthrowing and even emotion out of its political guests.  Politicians who beallowed air-time to plow questions presented by viewers and interviewers.  One major complaint however, was that the media was more interested inevoking a resp... ...nterpretations of data.  You mayreceive the news, but how you receive it may steady down how you interpret it. just now perhaps it may actually be a symbiotic relationship between the twoentities.  It may be that the media manipulates the quite a little and the massesmanipulate the media.  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 presentation on the issue.  After all it is aharsh group of critics that one is trying to appeal to, accordingly it isreally a delicate ever-changing balance between the desires of people and their hosts.