The effect of media on society is one that is an ongoing controversy in today's high tech world. We are so enamored with electronic information that we sometimes cannot distinguish media from the real world. Or we were never taught how to. Media is not all bad, either, it has become a unifier and a valuable tool, but it seems with the good, you must take the bad. There are all kinds of media in today's world that we must deal with, paper and electronic, all of which influence our lives in some way shape or form. My question is, does media control us, or do we control media"

"Sex, Lies and Advertising," was an essay written by the founder of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem, explaining the difficulties in interesting advertisers for a women's magazine like hers. She talks about the advertising world seeing women's magazines as only...