Mediated Communication

Mass Communication is a major part of many people’s daily lives. It’s almost unavoidable. An average household owns two to four televisions that can affect their ways of thinking. Unknown to most, media messages are being drilled into how we go about our everyday lives. The sources that deliver these hidden messages are in competition amongst each other, therefore will go to the extreme to manipulate the audience. The audience is their clay and they’ll mold them anyway they want, unless of course, the audience is well informed and knows the hidden agenda of mediated communication. When mass communication is analyzed, the sources don’t seem as credible. (Pearson, ch 11) I analyzed a segment of a news report to support these assu...