Media news and does the Media boost publics opinions

Chris Moyles reprimanded over Will Young 'gay' song lyrics

Ofcom rules Radio 1 DJ's spoof lyrics could have promoted 'negative stereotypes based on sexual orientation'. 

Does this really promote a negative stereotype or does the media hype bring attention to the fact? Would it have gone noticed by the masses if the coverage wasn't so large. Another example would be the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Many people what they did was bad, but not as bad as it was made out to be. So the big question is does the media hype and influence people opinion.

On Yahoo! answers people believe that the government influences the media to do what they want, and therefore influence people. It is an ongoing argument that never be solved. 

Updates

It has been an extremely busy time. Our film is taking shape and almost completed. We have had mid-year assessments. And still learning about film production companies. 

Firstly we are completing our final touches on our film. For example we are using Livetype to make our film credits and titles. We are also perfecting the sound which is an extremely tedious job yet when it is finished will add a new dimension to the film. We have also chosen to have the whole film in black and white as we, as a group, feel that this is the most successful way of portraying our dark character. Luckily we sorted our music quite easily and early. We emailed a group called 'Rhyme Asylum', who were more than happy for us to use their music. Overall its been an enjoyable project so far and now we need to sort out directors comment and we may even do an out-takes section on our DVD.

In the other side of the Media Studies course we are covering how media institutions represent topics such as gender, disability etc. In our textual analysis mid-years we had a clip from 'Ann Frank's Diaries'. Although i did not do as well as i had hoped i can see where i went wrong and hopefully can build on this.