The Crucial Role Of Mass Media

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privileged role or the supporters of Douglas Rushkoff’s essay on the ability of American people to see past the distractive sensationalism of modern day mass media. The debate that was engaged in class rested on these two contradicting sides.
On one side there is Manhiem. Arguing modern day mass media is profit and deadline driven, lacks true integrity, and despite the many different mediums it is still the same story taken apart, reassembled and passed on with little, if any difference in content. Today’s media determines a story’s “newsworthiness” not on content but rather on the location, timing, timeliness, and predictability of the story. That is the more convenient the story is to report the more likely that story is to be reported. An example of the remoteness and the difficulty of access to a story, given in Manhiem’s essay and in the debate, was the instance of a decade long-running war between the middle eastern countries Iraq and Iran, being kept out of the news ...

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