News and media: two words that are synonymous. It shapes our lives to what we talk about and how we act a second at a time. Media is everywhere telling stories about the world everyday. Media is involved when youre on the way to work and you hear an advertisement on the radio about McDonald’s McRib sandwich. It’s around when you’re on that same drive to work and you see billboards and even the songs you are listening to on that radio playing the McRib advertisement. In this day and age, people cannot escape media because it is everywhere.
News is the same way. It includes nightly newscasts talking of a robbery in Boston to the Chilean minors being rescued after a month underground. It informs us about current events that we can react to, and critique how the stories are being told. For example, we can witness reporters being angry about the news they present such as MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski ripping up a story on Paris Hilton being released from jail as headline news more so than something political.Many of us regularly watch the same channels, often many hours of the day, as the news is constantly running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All in all, news is good for the world because if we do not know what is going on, what would we talk about?
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