The world today is drastically changing as television, music, and entertainment are constantly influencing our culture as well as our generation. The question I pose is, “Are these media influences positive or negative?” Many of our role models have become sex crazed, drug addicted stars who don’t truly know the extent of their impact and the examples which they are portraying for our youth today. We find Paris Hilton in jail after numerous DUI tickets, Lindsey Lohan in and out of Rehab for her coke possession, and even Owen Wilson attempting suicide, and even Brittney Spears going into rehab when she shaved her head. Many of today’s leading ladies are having illegitimate children which even justifies our culture to pursue relationships which aren’t monogamous.
Even on television and with movies we find the allowance of sexual innuendoes and cursing on a regular basis which comes in the form of “comedy”. America has truly lowered morals and standards and compromised them for revenue. You can easily find curse words in movies rated PG and almost complete nudity in movies which are rated PG-13. Now parents have to watch more closely what there children are exposed to since few G movies are even created anymore and even PG movies aren’t properly rated.
However, even though there are so many bad things about media, there are positive sides too. Television can provide good information and teach our children the right things to do. Still, those good and educational shows are rarely watched and traded for shows with more “entertaining” storylines. From these different things, I have found that media itself isn’t bad but, the people who are “role models” and “stars” have corrupted industry today and created a bad perspective of what life should be like..
