The Media's Influence On Media And Freedom

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Powerful authorities are widely installed in the mission of influence on the editorial policy of the media with the intention of appropriating, redefine and pointing toward the realization of their own interests without regard for the public, but not caring even for media that are viewed as another tool used in the way of creating capital.
The biggest manipulators always point out that all their work, is work for freedom and in the name of freedom. Freedom does not mean licentiousness, irresponsibility and chaos. Freedom of compromising and destroying the universal values (truth, justice, good, love, beauty, solidarity and human dignity), to which it belongs, is not freedom, but verbal or written torture and spiritual violence. The media in …show more content…

They work only on his orders and editorial policy depends solely on his desire and interest.
The media omnipresence has allowed the media to become an integral part of social and individual life. Modern man certainly does not want that someone whmo he has allowed considerable space in his existence manipulate with his freedom and his right to the truth. The problem is that the media audience is still asleep and unable to defend himself.
The issue of the impact on the media actually boils down to the question of who owns the media. Everything that is happening within the media really is a game of power and the media. It is of course detrimental to the media. The media are in the hands of the ruling elite and influenced by the government and do not deal with those issues that are not interesting to the ruling …show more content…

The tabloids, reality shows and entertainment of a similar structure distancing man from all worries and activities, enabling him to meet a good part of their curiosity "sightings" in the life of celebrities, according to the media, successful people.
Modern society has less and less time for traditional human relationships and direct contact of man with man. The concentration of social power and decision-making becomes the dominant framework of mass society due to technical developments that use mass-media which, as a rule, are property of strong social groups.
The fate of the individual is left to the mercy of the editorial policy of the mass media which with creation of “his” attitudes threatens the integrity of personality and individuality. So an individual reaches the anonymity of the "lonely crowd" that is easily can be

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