Media Impact

We as a society are helplessly blinded by the media. Whether it be through the news, commercials, or even reality TV shows; we unintentionally believe the media influences our actions, and even our thoughts/ impressions of how things "should be." One of the biggest issues that has effected our society is how video games influence violence through out the community; specifically the video game Grand Theft Auto. Researchers, and even video game producers have argued that this is not true, while others disagree. However, video games, and GTA are not the only things that media has been blamed for that has impacted our society in a negative way.

Another real life issue that media has been blamed for is eating disorders. Commercials, and magazines have made us believe that we have to look a certain way to be considered beautiful/attractive. Tall, skinny, flawless, beautiful, and typically blonde models are being exposed on the cover of a magazine, and even on the commercials, getting young women to open their eyes, and say to themselves "I wanna look like that." With that said, some will stop at nothing to look like that even if it means not eating, or even throwing up what you eat; it's not worth it.

I used to be obsessed with watching the TV show America's Next Top Model. I've seen seasons 1-13, and to be honest, there has been some situations where eating issues have come up. In cycle three of America's Next Top Model, there was one woman who would eat very little to where other fellow contestants started to notice. Later, main judge of the competition, Tyra Banks brought in a nutritionist not to specifically address that problem, but to help all the models in the competition to diet themselves in a nice, healthy way, but then that is when Tyra became aware of the situation, and the woman refused to admit she has an eating problem: