Do I create a biased reality for myself?

In this time and age media it self is the gate keeper of the world beyond New Wilmington. An individual can live in the reality that they get from personal experience and interpersonal communication but his or her reality would only exist in the radius of travel limited to the strength of the feet. Reality is much like faith in that it extends further than the eye can see. If falling in to much worn path of media consumption, reality only extends to the specific path you choose. However, critical thought is beneficial in almost every aspect of knowledge. I think learning and knowledge must, on some level, be experienced rather that just lectured on. Mills expresses that media has the power to control what is being communicated and to what extent. To assume the knowledge of reality without analyzing what you interpret from the mass communication available to those who seek it out. This is where understanding media literacy is important. It is where the robot that is created turns on its master as Marshall McLuhan warns that as we create the world of mass communication, mass communication in turn, creates our reality. Our text, according to Hanson, communicates that the big 6 corporations control our media. Most likely an individual wouldn’t listen to just 6 people when deciding to ban tobacco, so why would he or she take as fact what any one form of media has to say?

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