pick if the media affects culture in a good way or bad way and why? You have to stand on which point would you be on? Also talk about what things affect the culture by media?
2006-11-01 12:11:55 · 6 answers · asked by lovely girl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The CNN effect is a theory in political science and media studies that postulates that the development of popular 24-hour international television news channels has had a major impact on the conduct of states' foreign policy in both the late Cold War period and the post-Cold War era. While the free press has, in its role as the "Fourth Estate", always had an influence on policy-making in representative democracies, proponents of the CNN effect argue that "the extent, depth, and speed of the new global media have created a new species of effects" qualitatively different from those which preceded them historically. The term's coinage reflects the pioneering role played by the network CNN in the field, whose "saturation coverage" of events like the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the fall of Communism in eastern Europe, the first Gulf War, and the Battle of Mogadishu was viewed as being strongly influential in bringing images and issues to the immediate forefront of American political consciousness and beyond. Despite these origins, the term as used generally refers to a broad range of real time modern media, and is not exclusive to CNN or even 24-hour broadcast cable news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_effect
2006-11-01 12:17:49 · answer #1 · answered by Jeremy W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I feel the media at times has a tendency to sway the way people feel about things. At times the media will pick out their wonder boy and praise him and then because they don't like the other guy will dog him. The media never really seems to get both sides of the story, it's like they only show you what they want you to see or hear and that is it. People will see stuff on TV and swear it's the honest to goodness truth. Most things published in the newspapers anymore or just one person's opinion they have done no research, no peer review, no nothing and people just believe it as the truth. I just like to see the whole picture. I just feel the media at times is just one sided and I know they are not telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth but not everyone knows that or understands that. So yeah, the media is a very powerful tool it can and has ruined people and it gives only a one sided opinion to what is going on in the world.
2006-11-01 12:47:49 · answer #2 · answered by crash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a school paper but, in any event, since the media distorts information and provides biased coverage, I would have to say that it affects culture in a bad way as it robs culture of its truth.
2006-11-01 12:16:39 · answer #3 · answered by the_plot_thickens 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
THe media puts things out of proportion to the point it is highly exagerated. Look at fashion model industry and the "LA" look. people are worried because this could lead to health disorders in women and as a guy... i don't find them attractive... they are beggining to look like somalians... literally skin and bones. As for the news media... do i need to explain myself here... the news are really out of touch with bein honest. The media affects people in the worse way.
2006-11-01 12:38:24 · answer #4 · answered by Harry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. When a new trend become famous it goes on the media. Then that media effects the culture. And vise versa
2016-05-23 08:40:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes definitely the media affects culture in a bad way
they are misleading and they distort things so they end up generalizing
2006-11-01 12:19:26 · answer #6 · answered by david 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋