At present, the media affects people’s lives significantly. What impact does this have on society? Is it a negative or positive development?

The
media
has a significant impact on the way
people
live their
life
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lives
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.
This
essay will discuss how the
media
shapes how
people
think about world events and
suggests
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suggest
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that
this
is a negative development because it endangers
democracy
. Most
people
take newspapers and TV news at face value and do not think about it very critically.
This
leads to them believing everything they read or hear on television and
this
can have a serious impact on how they view the world and can lead to them having a distorted view of certain key issues. Take the current refugee crisis as a perfect example, where the UK press reported the refugees as ‘migrants’ who were looking to swamp the UK and take advantage of their relative economic prosperity, when in reality these
people
were simply fleeing
war torn
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countries and had no other choice but to leave.
This
distortion means that governments and corporations can influence the
media
and get them to spin a narrative that suits their agenda, which is very dangerous for
democracy
. A healthy
democracy
must have a free press
that is
critical of the state and big business and if it does not,
democracy
will be in peril.
For example
, it has been shown that Fox News regularly tells lies about the Democratic Party and seeks to support the Republican Party, which is very disturbing when you consider that tens of millions of
people
tune in to Fox News every day. In conclusion, the
media
affects our views of the world by telling us what to think and unless
people
make up their own minds rather than blindly believing whatever they hear or read,
democracy
is threatened.
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