Mass Media- Team 2

I was on team 2, pro-mass media.
For question two, some rebuttals from team 1 were that messages were repetitious and biased. As well as they send out negative stereotypes, political leaders are gatekeeping, and mass media tends to make cultures materialistic.
My rebuttal for this argument is that yes, sometimes messages delivered through the media are repetitious, but its needed to that the public can be aware of the messages being delivered. As for the messages being biased it true, but at least they deliver the important information. Negative stereotypes aren't presented in every source of media and the ones that do are faulty sources. There are other types of media that fix those stereotypes by presenting the truth. To add on, political leaders maybe gatekeeping, but there are always people who know how to hack and get their opinions heard. Finally, mass media does not makes cultures materialistic. It helps society transition into high technology in order to make life easier and better.

For question three, the rebuttals were that the media made social change/movements too extreme and the news were over-dramatized.
My rebuttal for this argument is that the media over dramatizes things to make people intrested in knowing the facts and grasping their attention. If the media just presented a boring report with something that doesn't catch the audiences attention, then people won't really mentally process the information being given out and act on their beliefs.

references:

http://scienceofvirtues.org/ImageStore/protest.jpg

http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Media/Media.Image/mc.gatekeeping.gif