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At present, the media affects people’s lives significantly. What impact does this have on society? Is it a negative or positive development?

At present, the media affects people’s lives significantly. What impact does this have on society? Is it a negative or positive development? Kad9
The media has a significant impact on the way people live their lives. This essay will discuss how the media shapes how people think about world events and suggest that this is a negative development because it endangers democracy. A major impact of the media is that it affects how people interpret things happening in the world. Most people take the news at face value and do not think about it very critically. This leads to them believing everything they read or hear and can result in them having a distorted view of key issues. Take the current refugee crisis as an example, where, as a result of how refugees were represented in the UK news, people came to view them as ‘migrants’ who were looking to overrun the UK and take advantage of its economic prosperity, when in reality, these people were simply fleeing war-torn countries. This distortion means that governments and corporations can influence the media and get them to spin a narrative that suits their agenda, which is very dangerous for democracy. A healthy democracy must have a free press that is critical of the state and big business, and if it does not, democracy will be in peril. For example, it is widely known that certain news networks in the USA regularly tell lies about the Democratic Party and seek to support the Republican Party, which is very disturbing when you consider that tens of millions of people tune in to networks every day. In conclusion, the media affects our view of the world by telling us what to think, and this is a negative development because unless people make up their own minds rather than blindly believing whatever they hear or read, democracy is threatened
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has a significant impact on the way
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shapes how
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think
about world
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it endangers democracy.

A major impact of the
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media
is that it affects how
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people
interpret things happening in the world. Most
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people
take the news at face value and do not
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think
about it
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very
critically
. This leads to them believing everything they read or hear and can result in them having a distorted view of key issues. Take the
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current
refugee crisis as an example, where,
as a result
of how refugees
were represented
in the UK news,
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people
came to view them as ‘migrants’ who were looking to overrun the UK and take advantage of its economic prosperity, when in reality, these
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people
were
simply
fleeing war-torn countries.

This distortion means that
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governments
and corporations can influence the
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media
and
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get
them to spin a narrative that suits their agenda, which is
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very
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dangerous
for
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democracy
. A healthy
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democracy
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must
have a free press
that is
critical of the state and
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big
business, and if it does not,
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democracy
will be in peril.
For example
, it is
widely
known that certain news networks in the USA
regularly
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tell
lies about the Democratic Party and seek to support the Republican Party, which is
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very
disturbing when you consider that tens of millions of
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people


tune in to networks every day.

In conclusion
, the
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media
affects our view of the world by telling us what to
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think
, and this is a
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negative
development
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because
unless
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people
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make
up their
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own
minds
rather
than
blindly
believing whatever they hear or read,
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democracy
is threatened
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IELTS essay At present, the media affects people’s lives significantly. What impact does this have on society? Is it a negative or positive development?

Essay
  American English
4 paragraphs
289 words
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