This chapter talks about how media became an important structure for daily life. Especially how now days people wake up to alarm clocks on their phones or tablets to then watching then news or reading about the news on the internet. However, media in everyday life, back in WWII times, use to be used for making people want to be patriotic in order to help win and fund the war. But when the war was won, people more manufacturing began for consumer usage so media was played out to show what people should have or need to have in order to stay up to date in the culture.
The reading also shows that besides marketing products, the media also showed graphic news such as JFK assassination. It is also known that the media could also influence the public to form opinions such as when the Vietnam war became broadcast back home to what was happening making the war unpopular to everyone. But in present days, the media could be lies or just one point of view and more people are to question what is happening than people did back in wwII times. This is because of social media and shows like the Steven Colbert show that make fun of how normal news is presented to theorized the other side of the story.
All in all, there are some people who follow the media and believe everything, and there are also those who question what is really happening.
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