The Importance Of The Media Spectacle

Introduction
A Spectacle is a visually striking performance or display. It can also be revered to as an event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact.

Throughout the past ten years, the culture industries have increased media spectacles. Spectacles itself has become one of the essentials ingredients of the economy, society, politics and our everyday lives. The internet uses spectacles to circulate, reproduce and promote stories.

Our lives are shaped more and more by media spectacles. Political and Social disputes are emphasized in modern day media culture. These stories display shocking murder cases, star sex scandals, violent terrorist bombings and the extreme violence of our daily lives. The media not only put all of these things

Media is the backbone of democracy .With the use of media we are aware of various social, political and economic activities happening around the world. The media has become more active over the years. It is through the excessive coverage by TV news channels during elections for example that help the masses chose the right person to the power. Television and radio have made significant achievement in educating rural illiterate masses and making them aware of all the events that are taking place.

The media created imagined communities through targeting a mass audience or generalizing and addressing citizens as the public by using certain text and images in publications. Writers focus on the audience that may buy the magazine when writing a story whereas newspapers are more set on writing factual articles.

Mediated communication includes news, television, magazines, the internet and newspapers. When writing newspaper articles and magazines there are no facial expressions involved so writers need to be creative and write in a way that will keep the audience attention.

For this brief I chose two spectacles to discuss. The first spectacle is a local spectacle and for this I chose “the axe murders van Brenda”. The second Spectacle is a global spectacle and for this I chose “The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in

The effect of this earthquake was felt globally, from Norway’s to Antarctica’s ice sheet. The tsunami’s waste caused by this earthquake is still washing up on the shore of the North American beaches two years after the earthquake.

In 2015, residents in Japan were still recovering from the damage. According to the Japanese government the damage was about $300 billion dollars (about R 4026450). Even thought this was a massive earthquake, it was not the largest or deadliest earthquake of this century. The most deadly earthquake goes to the 2004 Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra which killed more than 230,000 people.

The Tohoku earthquake of 2011 just off the coast of Japan, where two of the earth’s tectonic plates collide. The tectonic plates slides underneath each other and stick together, this causes a buildup of energy which is later release as an earthquake.

The earthquake started around 2:46 p.m. local time on the Friday and was centered on the seafloor 72 kilometers east of Tohoku at a depth of 24 kilometer’s below the surface. The duration of the Tohoku earthquake was about six minutes. As confirmed on the 10th of April 2015 this earthquake caused 15 891 deaths and 2500 people were reported