Show Being controlled without knowing it Dan Bird Contributing Writer It is done to people everyday every everyday everyday day and most people have no idea they are being controlled Being controlled happens to every person whether people know it or not Mass media is a major tool in controlling every person From the time people get getup up and turn on the radio or TV people are being subjected to subliminal messaging Even when people get in their cars carsto carsto carsto to drive to work the bombardment of being controlled continues Mass media is one of the most effect ways o of controlling every person out there There are going to be some that say mass media does not control us we control it But that is not always the case case There is a a great deal that people do to make up the media that other people see day in and day out That is a form fonn of business to try and control the majority of the people into buying the products that corporate conglomerates want people to buy Most people dont don't even realize that they are being controlled they just go about their their- day as normal and continue on with life It is when people go to the shopping centers and grocery stores that the controlling takes place People remember what they saw on TV or on a billboard and even what they listened to on the radio The reminder of a certain product comes to their mind and the search for that item is on Mass media has always been a very good way to control the way the population looks at what they are are seeing around them Commercials are the biggest way of being ab able e to control what people will see and then want to buy because they saw it iton iton iton on TV Another good way of controlling every person is through the movies we watch Yes even the entertainment we watch has an effect on what we will do and purchase The clothes that the movie stars stars stars' I wear the food that they eat and even the devices they use are being sold to us as asa asa a way away of life Making things look like they are needed to sustain life has been one of the best selling tools for the longest time The most targeted group of people to tobe tobe tobe be controlled is teenagers on up to people in their mid twenties These are the people that are most sought after to be controlled People of this age are the most influenced by the many different forms of media N Now ow there is an ethical question many people ask when they come to knowledge of this control issue and it is just that Is Isit Isit Isit it ethical to be controlled by mass media People are not going to know about what there is to be offered if they are not controlled into seeing the information on a movie screen billboard or television There is and always will be a moral debate on whether or not people should be controlled by mass media Think of it this way if it does not note notI harm hann people e then there is I nothing wrong with being controlled |