Mass Media and Negative News

Mass Media & Negative News

Put simply, mass media refers to the Forms of communication designed to reach a vast audience without any personal contact between the senders and receivers. Examples would include newspapers, magazines, video recordings, radio and television and of course, the internet. The concept of mass media is now complicated, since through the internet, individuals have a means of potential exposure on a scale comparable to what was previously restricted to select group of mass media producers. These internet media can include personal web pages, pod casts and blogs.

In this day and age, it is virtually impossible to not have a connection to any form of mass media. Radio and television reach out to the remotest parts of civilization, keeping people up to date with events occurring miles and miles away. Mass media has developed extensively throughout the years and with each development, the news seems to travel faster and faster. Newspapers were perhaps the first big device of the mass media. They are still a large part of the mass media although their limitation lies within the fact that they can only be generated once or twice a day and therefore are not as up to date as television or radio shows are. They are however,