Diane Mahon (Edison) Partially Informed Media

The master cleanse is a diet which is also known as the lemonade diet. Recently it has been a big hit and many people are partaking in this new craze due to Beyonce Knowles. Who underwent the diet/cleanse in order to lose weight for her star role in Dream Girls. She announced in her interview that she lost weight, and that is all the viewers needed to hear. But did she tell them that it also causes gallstones? No. I think that media is an awful source of information. Whenever I do listen to things in the media, I do my own research on the side and make sure all possible outcomes and errors are known before taking action in any situation or issue. The media feeds people lies many of the times, they sugar coat what is not really real and also are unbiased in many stand points. Like stated in class, who doesn’t like Jennifer Aniston? She’s very pretty, funny, cute, charming, and all of the above. She’s a down to earth girl, or so it seems from the characters she plays and the interviews she made. But is that really her? Or is it just an act, besides she is an actor. Or maybe she is a control freak who drove Brad Pitt away? Maybe, maybe not. We will never know, because we are not them. Even close family members and friends could not see what the mishaps of their relationships ruins came from, instead the only ones who know is Brad and Jennifer. But gossip and rumors sell, so therefore the media lives off of it.

From a sociological standpoint we justify the role of media in our daily lives to be the micro level, which is within the context of larger social forces such as our economy, politics, religion, and technological developments which are our macro levels. Without knowing it, we use rumors and media everyday in our lives without knowing it. As stated by C. Wright Mills the sociological imagination helps us understand the relationship between history and biography. Through this we can see how our personal lives and social world (the micro and macro) connect! But it is all formed by historical or cultural and social institutions. We see ourselves and our place in society through mass media. But if media does not give us all of the information needed, does that make us do the same in our daily lives?