The Marxists further believe that power lies in the hand of
the few peoples, which are mostly the rich ones and the one who have a weapon
to change the people’s thinking who are mostly the people who owns media. But
on the other hand the pluralists believe that power is divided to in the hands
of the more people. The media owners are the people who can change the thinking
of the normal people.
The Marxists believe that media creates the moral panic
among the people, so that they can do whatever the media wants. For example:
media covers that the poor people stealing or doing something bad and showing
it to the people calling the working class people the problem of the society
and they are the ones who are ruining the society. But the media never covers
the white collar crimes which are done by the rich and powerful people, these
are the types of crime in which not only the single person but the whole
society is a victim, and these types of crimes are never reported and no one is
being punished for these.
Media also shows men always doing the wrong thing , but they
never tell people that women also does something wrong, even if she does it,
the society will not blame on them. But
on the other hand if the men does something wrong, they will be punished. This
is the stereotyping done by the media, in favour of the women. And this led the men towards
more crime, because they know that even if they are innocent they are punished,
so the do more crimes and this ultimately increase the crime rates in the
society, and this is done by the media only by creating the moral panic in the
the society.
As media has many adverse effects, there are also some good
effects of media, like it socialize the person as well in a good or a bad way
depends on the person himself. So we just can’t blame media for all the bad
things, but we are also responsible for these problems.