The media is corrupting our society. Do you agree?

Yes, I fully agree that the media is corrupting our society. In my point of view, the evidences of these actions are prevalent in our everyday lives and can be seen almost anywhere.

One of the main aspects of media corruption is media censorship. The initial purpose of censorship was to filter out any fictitious news or information that harms the image and reputation of the countries. However nowadays, the role of censorship had been blurred. Examples would be governments using censorship to remove negative news and cast themselves in positive light while editors use censorship to prevent publishing any news that risk offending any important figures in the society, thus benefiting themselves. Unknowingly, the media has shrouded our points of view by doing so and this can be noted locally: how often do you see the local government broadcasts news about their achievements on catching illegal immigrants as compared to broadcasting the news on the number of illegal immigrants that slipped under their noses? How often do you see schools announcing the achievements of various student groups as compared to announcing that of the groups that had nearly made the mark? The answer will be there will be more focus on the former than the latter for both cases. From these, we can see that the media today is corrupted as the supposedly good censorship practice have become a weapon for people to self-benefit.

Another aspect would be the making up of stories just to gain more viewers and popularity. This is done so as to select the best news to put on the front page, such that people will be most attracted to follow up on. An example would be the reports the on Israeli air strike in year 2006 that had supposedly struck the city of Qana, which had suffered a similar fate in April 1996, as indicated by the media. However upon further investigation, it was found out that the strike had occurred at a ‘hamlet approximately a mile to the north of the village, called Khuraybah (also known as Al-Khariba)’. Due to the influence of the media, this city eventually became the ‘“Qana” in cotemporary accounts.’ This shows the affluence of the media and thus has the ability to corrupt the society. "http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/part-1-introduction.html"

Although these are just two points, the tip of the iceberg of this issue, however, I believe people can see the extent of corruption on the society the media is able to introduce.