Entry 9: The Media and I

           Within the realm of media I have been noticing some slight changes in the way I look at it. My ENG 102 class has been showing me that media is manipulative and scary. Everyday people are told what is the best product as well as who has done what. This has created a system where people are believing what they hear on TV or read in a newspaper without checking it out for themselves. Shows like TMZ show how celebrities live outside of their normal realm. TMZ could easily show you the worse part of a conversation with one of those celebrities and make the audience believe that person is mean or selfish. 

           I am a person who does not watch the news or TV to catch all the new gossip. For one I don’t like commercials that constantly try to sell me food and product that look so amazing that you have to get them. Then when you do its half of what you were expecting. It is easy to fall back to Netflix as opposed to paying for cable where the only thing I would ever tune into would be playoff games. There are many people like me out there who would prefer to have no annoying commercials that constantly play over and over to the point where people memorize the jingles. 

         So for someone like me who has as minimal media exposure as possible it still seems to find its way into my life. This could be from peers telling me about what happened to Ray Rice or annoying jingles sung by friends that in turn get stuck in my head. Short but sweat is the theme of this blog post. Its crunch time for students at Glendale Community College so that is all for now followers! See you soon!