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How influential is the media in shaping public understanding of crime?


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How influential is the media in shaping public understanding of crime?

... How influential is the media in shaping public understanding of crime? With the rise of the mass media throughout the world, predominantly the Western world, the issue of media influence has become a serious one. Due to media's primary obsession with crime and violence, it definitely has a negative influence on shaping peoples understanding of crime by exaggerating it. A branch of media which always exaggerates on some crime e.g. terrorist attacks then other crimes is TV news this is basically an oxymoron; giving us the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie. TV news broadcasts use dramatic, usually violent stories and images to capture and maintain an audience, under the pretence of keeping it informed. What we see and hear on the news affects us both consciously and subconsciously, and sends us about our lives unnecessarily fearing the remote dangers that we see excessively portrayed on the evening news.

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