Media Ahead

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.