Media and it Greatest Impact on Society

Media is a medium that is used to deliver message to other people. Media have been improve a lot through the times and many invention has been made. Our society relies on technology for entertainment,news and education. Media such as newspaper, magazines, internet, television ,books and radio is seen as one of the greatest influential factors on the opinion and viewpoint towards the modern world. Our society, especially young children and teenagers are easily to being swayed by an information and news content that has been manipulated by one organization or one party. 

This situation do give great impact on our society. We are being bombarded with a lot of news and information coming from the television, radio, movies newspaper, magazine and the most important is social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Too many information make it hard for us to filter out what is relevant and to differentiate which one is right and which one is wrong. But some people who just do not care whether the news that reach them is right or wrong, they will just trust whatever news that reach them even though it is the wrong information. Besides, the youth these day are the group of people who are being effected and exposed the most by the television, movies and social media which then work to shape the attitude the public holds for or against various issues. For example the stereotypes of popular girls in university being rich and fashionable, sexual orientation and religions, and  unfair beauty standard. From there, we can see that the media is manipulating public opinion and way of life. 

But still , despite of all those impact , media also give benefits to our society.For example communication get a lot easier, they get to know what is going on around them and many more.