Influences from the media

understandablehorror · Post by **understandablehorror** » 6/5/2003, 6:20 pm

how do YOU try and avoid the influences by the media, personally I think I'm influenced way to much and wish I could stop but its like an addiction, an addiction to looooooooove

(ive said loooooove twice already, im proud)

liam · Post by **liam** » 6/5/2003, 6:43 pm

what do you mean influence from the media? influence for what?

I'm so lost

sandsleeper · Post by **sandsleeper** » 6/5/2003, 6:49 pm

hm. since it's pretty much impossible to avoid being influenced by the media my strategy is to actively consider it. you simply have to think about the motives behind everything before you buy into anything, (which is also impossible to do completely).

One-Eye · Post by **One-Eye** » 6/5/2003, 8:23 pm

Media is for news and entertainment. If you allow it to become anything more, that's pretty sad.

understandablehorror · Post by **understandablehorror** » 6/5/2003, 8:24 pm

very good point

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 6/5/2003, 9:51 pm

media influences us, our society and our interaction with society. if the media is lying to ya, you're screwed.

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 6/5/2003, 9:55 pm

YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... cool/view/

SERIOUSLY.

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 6/5/2003, 10:12 pm

i think i did...

the problem with media is that whatever sells, will be shown. we all become meaningless consumers in the eyes of the media-machines. our emotions get toyed around with so they can make money off of us...*sigh*

im a very bitter person

understandablehorror · Post by **understandablehorror** » 6/6/2003, 8:26 am

^angsty

starvingeyes · Post by **starvingeyes** » 6/6/2003, 9:17 am

i love the media.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 6/6/2003, 10:56 am

the MTV machine......i hate that saying, i think it's because someone over used it and it pissed me off. oh and i Hate MTV.

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 6/7/2003, 6:35 am

I hate MTV, but somehow I catch myself watching it.

liam · Post by **liam** » 6/7/2003, 6:48 am

i am influenced by what goes on in my own life, talk about death, life, friends, addiction, marriage, divorce, anything. Like i was influenced by a substitute teacher who practically told us not to believe in god... i wrote a song about him. I wrote a song about my mom and how religious she is even though so much bad shit happens to her. Everything is influence, some positively and some negatively, as far as i'm concerned any influence is good.

understandablehorror · Post by **understandablehorror** » 6/7/2003, 8:10 pm

we make every decision from influence, nobody can actually say they made a decision on their own

liam · Post by **liam** » 6/8/2003, 7:29 am

i say i've made decisions on my own... the decisions to love, hate, feel, and be what what I want to be. Nobody else can make those decisions for me. Not even the media.

starvingeyes · Post by **starvingeyes** » 6/8/2003, 12:45 pm

liam is right

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 6/8/2003, 12:53 pm

yes. he is.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 6/8/2003, 12:55 pm

Yes, but those decisions that you made were influenced by everything around you, including the media.

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 6/8/2003, 1:08 pm

after i watched that documentary i posted, i thought that i didn't buy things based on the media, but then i realized that i wanted a green adidas jacket because a member of a rock band had one...and why did he have one? because a company was sponsoring the band, so they wore the clothes of that company

the media really does influence you...you just don't realize it.

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 6/8/2003, 1:11 pm

the media. influences me. a lot. i wish it didn't but it is rather hard to avoid...