Analysis: How I Lost My Life's Savings And A Poem Saved My Life

How is the media harmful?

The media is a main mass of communication, that includes but does not limit to, broadcasting through radio, TV, the internet, and the publication of magazines, newspapers, and other resources. Throughout the change of times, the media’s evolution has come from the rusty radios to the black and white TV, to the smartphones that we use today. We find media everywhere, anytime, and displayed in any form. Although it has many positive aspects, such as a source of information, entertainment, and socialization, the media’s negative impact overcome these benefits. It is, indeed, a medium for promoting consumerism, violence, the lack of interaction between people, and false perception about women’s body image. The most important

In a fact, the media impacts significantly in what we consume. Our society is drowned by consumerism. Reference to these issues is made by the author of the article “Madoff and Miracles: How I Lost My Life’s Savings and a Poem Saved My Life” Kim Rosen. He says that “(…) If the current climate of catastrophe is teaching us anything, it is that material acquisition is not the road to happiness” (Rosen). Clearly, we are focused on buying the stuff that we see through the TV adds or hear from the radio or find on the internet, that we forget the important aspects of life. The main reason for this is that the media persuades us to have things that we don’t need by presenting the products as a “necessity” but at the end of the day is just a way to get money and to keep us from the important

It has become very difficult to communicate effectively, for instance, we see families at restaurants maintaining a conversation with a new language, “the text message”. We barely see children at parks, instead, they are playing video games or watching TV shows. According to the article, No TV Week, by the author, Bob Peterson, “The average five-year-old will have spent 5,000 hours in front of the TV before entering kindergarten—more time than he or she will spend in conversation with his or her parents for the rest of their lives, and longer than it takes to get a college degree” (Peterson 2). It is atrocious to see how the concept of family’s communication and interaction are changing in front of our eyes. As much as we like to lie to ourselves on what is causing the problem, it is evident that social media is a major factor of this