Blog #7

The media has a wide range of influence on us. The most surprising thing I have found is that mass media is made to bring the product to the consumer. The networks are selling their audiences so companies can sell to the audiences. It all seems very circular. It makes me wonder how the quality of our entertainment would change if we had a different system that didn't use money as its main influence. With money involved it makes everything very biased and makes it very important to learn how to weed out the bias and get our own view. The money does make more people join the industry so we get more points of view. But the only point of view we get is the point of view of money seeking companies so people watching only get the view that you need to earn money so it makes sense that our society is centered on money and the economy.