The Crucial Role Of Mass Media
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In today’s information driven, ever-changing society we, as the American people, depend more and more on the mass media to play an influential role in our day to day lives. The American people of today rely on the mass media for information on all aspects of life ranging to what we know about o ....
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.... The two sides on the ability of the mass media to fulfill it’s role recognized by the Bill of Rights can be categorized into either the supporters of Jarol Manhiem’s essay on the ineptness of the media to realize it’s privileged role or the supporters of Douglas Rushkoff’s essay on the ability of American people to see past the distractive sensationalism of modern day mass media. The debate that was engaged in class rested on these two contradicting sides.
On one side there is Ma ....
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