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The Power of the Media
Summary: Describes how powerful media images affect individuals either positively or negatively. Explores how the images that the media can present to the American people can affect one's political views; it can influence violent behavior, and can unknowingly make individuals more open-minded.
The media is a very powerful tool. The American media and the information it presents on a day to day basis, is arguably one of the most effective ways to either positively or negatively affecting its people. More notably, images from the media are indisputably one of the most effective ways to get someone's attention. The images that the media can present to the American people can affect one's political views; it can influence violent behavior, and can unknowingly make individuals more open-minded.
Politics are always a strong subject throughout the media, whether its focus is on political campaigns, political scandals, or global wars. The war in Iraq is a good example of how affective media images are in the world's culture today. For example, images of war are so fluent and so easily obtainable whether through the internet, television, magazines, or newspapers. These images can range from...
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