Entry #9 Second to Last

            If someone would to ask me what media is, I automatically think about social media. When we talked about it in class I realized that media is a general term and it can mean several different things.  Media can mean social media, media outlets like news, and even the devices we use to view all that like smart phones. I never really paid much attention to the news because I found it boring, but when we talked about slanted reporting I made me wonder if all news outlets used that kind of reporting. I know for a fact that fox news used it a lot to bring in more views I even made a blog about the report. I even noticed that we are way too dependent on the devices we use like our smart phones. It is true that they are convenient, but I’m noticing that everyone is constantly on their phone during communication. Media is now a big part of our lives we get so much information from it that it sculpts the way we think.  Television and social websites are dominated by the younger crowd and I am noticing that there a very bad influences on media.  We have rappers that are constantly bombarding us with foul images, we have news broadcast that are slanted, and we can escape reality through media. Media has always had an impact on all of us, but we need to be aware of what we are viewing and the way we are thinking.