Much of mass communication industry depends on the explotiation and
manipulation of human weakness.
The one consistent theme permeating virtually all advertising is
consumer inferiority. By unconcious comparison, the consumer has to be
a loser, deficient and ordinary.
Ad models are always glamorous and desirable. The idealization works
like the unobtainable carrot being dangled in front of a jackass. That
carrot can dangle just out of reach througout a lifetime of consumer
behavior.
angelfire. com/planet/manipulation/
2007-01-16 12:39:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Media influences people....bottom line. 100%
2007-01-16 12:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by ALive 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The media is the strongest controller of this nation. There for you should watch the least biased news/radio on the network. IE fox news (even though O'Riely is a wind bag, too many times he is right) CNN has been caught in too many lies, MSNBC are total shape shifters, Dan rather should be jailed for trying to illegally trying to influence elections ETC ETC ETC! Fact is follow what YOU believe is right or wrong. There are SO many bogus factors on BOTH sides trying to shove their propaganda down your throat. Make YOUR OWN stand. Don't be a robot controlled by the media...they are the single most corrupt people on the planet....as much as the scum bag politicians.
2007-01-16 20:48:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think all that much...
except for when I hear or read something... so then i am forced to think
so I would say that the media has a major affect on the way I think, weather or not i really retain any of the information, believe it, or even give a snot... well those are a whole other set of questions.
Yea I want to be a supermodel... i just have to get several operations done first... and loose some serious weight...
(i'm already half way there!)
2007-01-16 20:45:52 · answer #3 · answered by sykosymmetry 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hmm.. I don't know. Good question.
I'm so much of a skeptic, though, I tend to doubt fantastical claims, at least. Most others, if I care enough, I'll take the time to investigate.
2007-01-16 20:48:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its very apparent that most of the morons in the US are like lemmings and go verbatim with the media.
2007-01-16 20:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by charles 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like a quote from my media professor, a phd and a very smart lady. She says "the media can't tell us what to think, but it sure as hell tells us what to think about."
2007-01-16 20:43:39 · answer #6 · answered by niwriffej 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
50%
2007-01-16 20:42:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, I depend on them for almost all my news.
2007-01-16 20:42:44 · answer #8 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lot, weather you want to or not your opinions are changed by what you hear on the news (right or wrong)
2007-01-16 20:43:19 · answer #9 · answered by Yahoo Answer Rat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NICE LEGS, 50 %
2007-01-17 19:19:22 · answer #10 · answered by bob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋