A world without media would not be a better and safer place. In a world without media, the world would be completely different. There would be no billboards, no commercials, no posters, no magazines, and no advertising. Many of you are probably thinking that this might be a good thing, but it wouldn’t be. You have to remember that media gives us knowledge, even if it’s just simple facts, like knowing that McDonald’s serves tea. Without media influence we wouldn’t know much of what we know currently, people wouldn’t have as much individuality, or creativity. News would also have to be transported by people or letters.
In a world where there is no media influence, people wouldn’t have inspiration to make new things or have new ideas. Most ideas that people have come from magazines, commercials, or other forms of advertisement. People think of the colours and pictures from magazines or posters and form thoughts and ideas of their own. Many people have very little imagination or no imagination at all, and think of a good idea after they get inspiration from a picture in a magazine or on a poster. The theory of otherworldly beings would never have been popular if scientists hadn’t advertised their ideas about them, and producers making movies about the beings coming to Earth. If there was no media, society would not know about otherworldly beings. Even in books media is important, many books describe propaganda in the world around them. In Phantom of the Opera, the author describes the posters that advertise the Opera House and the people singing in the opera. Without commercials and advertising, the world would be much more dull.
In today’s society, most of the world is on some sort of social media website, if all of that were to disappear, then many of the people today would go insane or be antisocial. Being social is important in the growth and development of today’s youth, however, the way to be social in the minds of teenagers and children today is to be on facebook or twitter. If the social media websites were to shut down completely, this generation wouldn’t know what to do to be around friends. They wouldn’t think to call and ask to go to the mall or see a movie, they also wouldn’t be able to share pictures or show support to something if they didn’t have a facebook or twitter. You may think that getting rid of facebook or twitter would be a good thing, however, today's youth has been born into a world of technology. Taking that away from a large group of people who have been born into it, would be madness, there would be riots from the young adults and teenagers who have had a huge part of their life taken from them.
The media also gives people the news to see if any dangers are near them. Without the news, people wouldn’t know if a hurricane or tornado is headed toward them as quickly. The news tells also tells people about tragedies and problems that are happening in the world, people wouldn’t be able to show support of something unless they were told directly. People wouldn’t know about Malala, the girl fighting in her country for the right to an education, we wouldn’t know that she was shot by the Taliban, and we wouldn’t know about
the tragic event in Connecticut, we wouldn’t even know about the wars our country is currently fighting in.
So now you can see that if we no longer had media we would not be better off. Sure, we wouldn’t have cyber bullying, but is that an even price for having no media at all? If we had no media, we would have less creativity, news would travel slower, and people would be less social. If media were to disappear, news would travel much more slowly and far less accurately.
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