Monday, September 18, 2017

A media product that I enjoy and use often is my phone. The phone has countless uses, but I mainly use it for relaxation, finding information, and communication. The phone's ability to excel in providing me with those three key factors of human life gives it much importance. For example your phone allows you to discover new breaking news, scientific discoveries, information for school projects, and even just to answers questions you are dying to know. The phone also gives us access to video games, music, art, and many other calming activities. Finally the phone provides a means of talking to friends, family members, boy/girl friends, and even strangers whom you've never met through applications such as social media, calling, video chat, commenting on videos/chat forums.

A media product that is harmful to the public is extremist news sources such as infowars and buzzfeed. These extremist websites push their radical agenda, all though not all buzzfeed articles are like this as they do post a significant amount of articles with the intent of amusement rather than a political statement, that ultimately leads to more racism, sexism, and extreme feminism, all of which plague society. All though such extreme news sources do offer various ways of viewing the world, which is important in a democratic society, they tend to lead to the oppression of others which is not healthy in a democracy. I think that they should be removed in order to create a utopia of similar thinking, generous, kind, and uncultured humans. However, this does not seem like a utopia as the society described does not include many of the things that makes us human. So I say that those media outlets should be left in existence but actively opposed by the masses, rather than this silent majority set up we see today. I would like to end by pointing out it is far too early in the human progression for anyone, much less me, to accurately predict whether or not the removal of such media devices will benefit or hurt society in the long run. 

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