Media Influence and Power

I really enjoyed these two essays they were really powerful to me. The first one i read was Framing Class this spoke of how our society is divided into the many different class systems based on how much money we have. I think it is really messed up how the media has made it seem like we need to have money and be educated in things that really dont matter like how to set a table properly and things that really serve as no importent purpose in your life. The media makes it seem like your life is so horrible if you are in the lower class when really it may not be that bad. It makes everyone feel like they need to do whatevedr they can to make money just to be happy and its sad to see many people fall for this stupid idea and see their lives ruined over it. The second article was Two Ways Women Can Get Hurt it is a really sad fact to see how women are being portrayed in our media and our life. Through songs and advertisements along with movies and commercials women have been degrated and are constantly looked at for only sexual things or other horrible things. Women have been reduced to being treated as this because in almost every advertisement seen the women have some sort of sexual thing about them that is trying to lure them in. Women should not be treated like this but sadly through things such as this women are getting put into a sad hole.