Monday, August 23, 2010

Who Owns the Media?

Who owns the media? While we sit on our butts at home watching TV and surfing the internet we have yet to realize that big corporations such as Warner bros, CBS, and Disney are even owned by larger corporations acquiring money from your views. Did you know that Disney is the number 2 media corporation selling their cartoons like Mickey Mouse and Donald duck but now Disney as a corporation changed and to rank in new viewers they got rid of their cartoons and added TV stars such as Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) and Selina Gomez to appeal to their teenage and child audience. Media is a metaphor we like to use for evolution. We now that technology has evolved to fit our needs so is evolution or the minds of mankind that has shaped the way we use technology and how we own it? The media today is down by everyone it easy while we sit on our laptops we tend to forget that websites like YouTube, Face book, and even blogspoit.com anyone can post any media whether it would be news, videos, and photos everyone around use controls and uses media to distribute information worldwide plane. Children that are 11 years old can post anything they want on the internet and get millions of viewers, and because it’s the internet that they own, they control media.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Otis,

    Where is your supersize me essay??? AS for this one, I would like to see one controlling idea, with some supporting points made. I had trouble seeing what the main idea was here.

    Mrs. B

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