With particular reference to television news, assess the role that the mass media have in shaping "reality".
Date Submitted: 05/23/2004 11:50:23
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 6 pages (1702 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 6 pages (1702 words)
"The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace." (Herman and Chomsky, 1994: 1). From surfing the worldwide web to picking up a newspaper in the morning, from watching the nighttime news to switching on our mobile phones mass media is all around us, in everything we do and we can't escape it. We are in a period of media saturation. Television is the best media example to use because, "…
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