The media has a huge influence on our everyday lives. The media can persuade our buying habits, influence decisions we make, affect how we act, and manipulate how we think. In order to demonstrate this, I decided to create a newspaper front cover for my media autobiography. The newspaper that I designed is an example of how the media can influence us. Everything that is found on this page can persuade the reader.
The media has an effect on your daily routines and purchases. A newspaper can also change your daily routes or schedule. For example, the weather forecasts may change your plans for the day. You may reschedule an activity you had planned because of the projected weather forecast. The IPod advertisement at the bottom of the page is an example of the purchasing power the media can inflict. For example, when buying an mp3 player, most people will choose a product that they are familiar with and have seen in advertisements.
The news stories in the media also have a huge impact on our lives. “For example, the Listeria outbreak in Ontario caused stocks and purchases to drop at Maple Leaf Foods” (www.cbc.ca). People avoided purchasing Maple Leaf products because of the many sicknesses and deaths that were reported in the media. The media can also create fear. For example, a girl killed herself in India when she heard on the news that the world could end due to an experiment that was being completed. “The experiment was deemed safe by leading scientists and engineers” (in.reuters.com). However, the media decided to exaggerate the idea of one man who believed the experiment would end the world and this girl believed the story.
Finally, the media can manipulate how we think. In the upcoming American federal election, American voters will vote for a person depending on what they have heard through the media. Sarah Palin is a relatively new face in the political arena. The media could have described her as a loving hockey mom or a politician with extremist views. The media has a huge impact on our everyday lives and decisions.
Media dominates our everyday lives, through newspapers, TV, radio, ads and much more. It has a huge effect on our daily routines, our purchases, our decisions, and our actions. The political intentions of this project were to show how easily the media controls our lives, even when we don’t realize it. While creating this project, I quickly realized how everything in a newspaper is designed to influence the reader. From something as simple as a weather forecast to a full page news report, everything has an impact on our lives. If a newspaper can have such an effect on our lives, then it is scary to think how other media objects around us can also manipulate our decisions. From a simple logo on a product to a national newspaper, everything around us is the workings of the media.
Work Cited
Girl kills self over Big Bang fear. 10 Sept. 2008. Reuters India. 15 Sept. 2008.
[http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-35414720080910]
Meat Recall Could Cost Millions More. 25 Aug. 2008. CBC News. 15 Sept. 2008.
[http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/08/25/maple-leaf- listeria.html?ref=rss]
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