Personally I believe that the media is an element of persuasion in popular culture, because of mainly the advertising industry. How can Americans not be persuaded one way or another when we have magazines ads, T.V commercials and billboards telling us that we have to have the next latest and greatest thing.
Now in popular culture we don’t know what to do without the medias advertising, we have become reliant on it, because our society is fixed on having the next “it” thing. So in-turn we like to complain about the media because we don’t like the fact that we as Americans are hooked on having the next great thing, but I don’t think our society today would know what to do with out it. We like the idea, of going against the medias persuasion techniques, but at the same time we fall for them everyday. The thing that I find most interesting is, Americans like to put blame on the media for persuading them to buy something they don’t really need but, we use persuasion everyday, on our friends, family, etc. to get them to do what we want, so my questions is, why do we get angry at the media for doing the very same thing to us?
Persuasion is element of life, we all have to connect with it in different ways, it needs to be acknowledged especially when it comes to the media.
