Blog #1

  When I interviewed my four subjects about media, they came up with pretty similar answers but from different perspectives. Everyone agreed that media is a form of communication between two sources about what is going on around us. My younger interviewee replied that it was information passed on in an entertaining way and an older woman that I interviewed said that it is interesting facts that are unnecessary but enjoyable. The media impacts all four lives by informing them of what is going on in the world. It provides my dad with conversation topics so that he can contribute to conversations with his friends, and my friend's younger sister said that it starts and stops fads so she can keep up with the latest trends. My dad, a high school student, and her younger sister believe that media is necessary, while the older woman doesn't think that it is absolutely necessary. "The media hurts people and can provide wrong information," she says, which can be true in many cases. But the other argued that we wouldn't know anything without the media, and my mom pointed out that it creates millions of jobs all around the world. However, even though it is necessary, there are pro's and con's of media. As pointed out out earlier by my older interviewee, a negative part of media is that it can provide wrong information, and my mom believes that the biased view points influence the public, which she believes is negative because is gives the media too much power. A positive side of it is that it teaches the uninformed about worldly affairs. As the high school interviewee learned in first semester government, the media plays an important role in setting the political agenda. 

Overall, the media was viewed as a good thing among my four interviewees and as an imperative form of communication.