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The Mass Media Has an Adverse Effect on Moral Standards. Do You Agree?

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In the
last
 50 ,years the
media
 influence has grown exponentially with the advance of technology, ,
first
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 there was the telegraph,
then
 the radio, the newspaper, magazines, television and now the internet.
Although
,
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 these products were introduced with the intention of informing, educating and entertaining at the beginning, in my ,
opinion
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 they abused their position of power and that caused serious problems in moral
standards
. In the
first
 place
media
, mostly television
,
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 has a violent effect on
people
 by providing devastating images of war and death
such
 as action and horror movies that clearly shows murder as entertainment. Not to mention it can become traumatic especially in children that are starting to grow and are shaping their personality values and beliefs can become aggressive or they can lose a sense of reality and fiction of what they are seeing.
Furthermore
,
people
 are exposed to advertising that makes billions of dollars for
media
. Teenagers
in particular
 buy what their favourite celebrity advertise and what is acceptable by society based on the fashion that the
media
 has imposed on them. While young
people
 are in a stage of life where they want to be loved and be successful, the
media
 creates the ideal image of beautiful men and women to them. Needless to say that they can lose their own personality with a blind following of celebrities and
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 confidence about what they really are. The fact that society depends on information and communication to maintain its
standards
 contradicts the idea that the
media
 has a negative influence on moral
standards
.
However
people
 daily lives are relied on the
media
 to get the current news and facts about what is important and what they should be aware of. In conclusion, despite the fact that
media
 is an inseparable requirement to improve our moral
standards
, it needs a revision to reach the goal of supporting our principles.
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