Psychology and the Media
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The media most likely represent a distorted image of psychology. The media develop public opinion or uniformed opinion and control people personally. This is happening because the world is changing very rapidly so new ways of organizing human life is available through the media that is newspaper, magazine, radio stations and mostly television. These changes are basically new language system, new words, new institutions, and new fashions which includes cosmetics, clothing etc. Get to live with this new world is like living with the television. And for this media it's normal and easy for people to share the same conceptions. But shared conception is not always good because people get to lose their own personal choices in order to catch with the new media world.
On the other hand newspapers, book publishers, television motion pictures anything that is, almost all are for profit enterprises and so they work for their own personal benefits and thus show or print anything that always entertain people and manipulates them, and that present psychology in a sensationalistic manner. And in addition to do these Medias spend much time energy and money in efforts to change people's attitudes and behaviors. In the end everyone else other than these news people bears the cost of this distorted image of psychology...