Recently in my English class at college we've been going over media and as a Marketing major it's a fun topic because I'm already knowledgeable about it and it's what I will be working with in the future.
I think media, personally, is over controlling and worries and depends too much on stereotypes and trends. Even news has a shock value which is pretty pathetic, but they need viewers somehow.
In relation, and ironically, South Parks current season attacks how Ads evolving and taking over the town of South Park. Everyones opinion is based on these ads, they change their town because of them, and they worry too much about being "politically correct" to where a new character called "PC Principal" takes over the school. It effectively shows the relation of ads and news and how news are becoming ads.
It's also ironic since South Parks website used to be ad free and show every episode for free, but then it got bought out by Hulu which even with a standard subscription you still get ads and it counts down the ad even with Ad Blocker. Irony.
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