Personal_Statement

Personal Statement We are the media and the media is us. That statement is very broad and is so for a good reason. Through out the world and the history of our society, media has transformed, melted, bent, molded and made our society and culture what it is today. But at the same time, our culture and society has done the exact same thing to media. It is hard to realize or imagine a time without televisions, telephones, fax machines, printers, computers, cell phones, pagers and other electronic technologies that have made our lives, hopefully, stress-free. Those items were and are still being invented today to make our lives easier and better, but are they really making life easier and better' Media plays a big part in defining what society wants and gets. Society tells our media what society wants. There are both upsides and downsides to the media, one saying what both of us want and two doing what both of us want. First let’s start with the downsides of our media. Our media censors us and desensitizes us to our own society. Lets take for example the news, in news the media, society, think, time, never, because, out, good, should, people, news, little, example, country, american, way, stories, same, public, money, make, lives, both, americans, about, very, tell, take, story, records, publicity, overall, over, one, now