Throughout the semester i learned a lot about how the big corporations have a death grip on America. I never new how much my life was influenced by the mainstream companies. I feel as though as a kid growing up in the generation X that more and more people don't think for themselves. Until this class it really wasn't that apparent. I have always been an avid listener to the current since in inception in 2005. And this class really taught me to appreciate what a good radio station it truly is. How it didn't let the mainstream media flex its monetary muscle and ruin what is a truly great station.
We learned how many large companies own many different types of media. A company could own a movie business, and a radio station, and a T.V. station, and a video game company. They could then persuade you to purchase a particular video game using their many faces of media. Perhaps during a T.V. program a commercial for the game might come on, or during the previews of a movie at the theatre. The large companies can control what you want to buy and when. That is a very scary thought. That there are certain items or services out there that can't compete with big business so the public becomes unaware of there existence. Big business controls more then we think it does, and every year they get better and better at manipulating the unsusepecting public.
Jordan Langer
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