Fear of the Media

Fear of the Media

The media are a source for people to receive news about their neighborhood and what’s happening around them. The media are to blame for many of the fears that one would have. They believe what they hear, so if it’s on television, it’s likely that they will assume that it is true. The media misreport specific fears or threats and overstate statistics. They make little numbers look like big numbers. No matter how big or small, they tend to consider the factors of the dilemma. Television tells them what to believe and what not to believe. Clearly, the media play a big part in people’s lives.

When people hear things in the news about kidnappings, robbery, theft, they think that they need to protect themselves and their families, so some go out and buy weapons or move into safer communities with gates and security. Weapons shouldn’t be allowed to people, they only kill. Majority of the time the media are just trying to scare the people to make money. The world revolves around money.

The impact the media has on them is that they misdirect them from realizing the true fears that they should be worried about such as poverty or pollution. The media needs to show more of how much of the air is polluted, why people shouldn’t recycle, why people shouldn’t litter. They need to focus more on poverty rather than making us fearful of the wrong things. Media are a powerful thing and a major influence on all of America; and America has a dependency on the media. The multi-media can sometimes control the way we think and feel about certain issues may be good or bad news. But there is nothing wrong with feeling fear: everyone does it at some point. Fear is one of the most basic emotions and is not, in itself, dangerous; it is part of the natural alarm system designed to react to or anticipate danger. Sometimes just thinking about something makes people fearful. All they can do is live each day and see what the future is all about. Once they face their fears and are no longer afraid of the simple things, fear can only make everyone stronger as individuals, it allows everyone to face things greater than they can imagine, such as bungee jumping off a bridge or parachuting from a plane that is 8,000 feet in the sky.