Mindlessness

AE #5

 Mindless Entertainment

We are discussing in English the rhetoric that media uses to influence the masses.  Not only in the mass media of television but in everything has that affected our lives.  From the printed newspaper, to the music we listen to, and to the pictures on the billboards, we are exposed to so much of this advising that we seem not to notice it any more.  But they are there to persuade, influence, and ultimately get us to spend our money.  Now like most of Americans, I come home from work and after dinner I sit in front of the television and if I am not doing my homework, I mindlessly watching something on the boob tube.  

            Let’s evaluate what is on now days; we have reality TV, which is staged.  Documentaries that are designed to teach but are very one sided.   Then we have the news that is only supposed to report the news but what are they doing, chasing down little kids to get interviews after a disaster or shooting. 

 

 I would never have thought about these things except English class brought it to the surface.  So as I look at the news reporters fight each other and showing fake emotions talking with victims, for the sole purpose to get ratings which equal money.  Then to add insult to injury, they put their own little spin on it to drum up emotions so they can go after a political hot potato, for ratings.   Like the shooting that happened in Connecticut, everyone jumped on the band wagon to get rid of guns but when the kid killed 14 people with a knife, one day in the news and nobody is trying to rid hunting knifes.

 

Guess the ratings weren’t there, so it does not matter.