Monday 23 March 2009

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. 

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