This essay is about how the media can make heroes out to be

This essay is about how the media can make heroes out of the wrong people. The media consists of stories in newspapers, articles in magazines or even broadcast to the television.

The media makes heroes out to be brave, courageous, and muscular and all the things you wish you could be. However a hero is a person who is noble, or risks his or her life for others. S/he is someone to be admired. A hero can be anybody who has done something special. Berny Laplant was such a hero as he saved the life of fifty people.

Sometimes the media makes heroes out of people who have not done something good. For example, it can glamourise people who look good or have a lot of money. This happened in ‘Accidental Heroes’, the real hero was overlooked because he didn’t look like a hero that could save fifty people who were on the flight 104.

When the media writes stories, it does not always tell the real or complete story. It only wants the more exciting pieces of the story to attract reader...