What Media Does the Society Today. 3rd Blog Post

For some time now, television has influenced the lives of many children and young adults; whether its making them act different from what they saw or do something bad also because of what they saw. Priming means that it activates one thought in a human's mind when watching something interesting on tv and triggers another thought in the mind. Priming mostly affects young kids and teens because of what they see on tv. Television shows and commercials display such things like kids playing with guns, getting into fights, acting tough, or saying inappropriate words and instantly they want to act or saw what they saw on tv. A perfect example of priming would come from a clip in Family Guy; The clip is set up by Peter, Joe, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Brian are watching Jackass on tv and see them doing stupid stunts, so they decided to do what they did because they saw it on tv. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEhrPCr1iq8

Lawrence Wise's 2nd Blog Post

What seemed interesting to me is how the media uses agenda setting to their advantage. They use anything from news, commercials, and television shows. Cartoons especially are used for media agenda setting to send their messages out to every viewer. Whenever there is a big contraversy whether its dealing with politics, social issues, etc. they eventually are shown in some way in any cartoon. For example, the televsion shows such as, "American Dad," "Family Guy" and other shows use stereotypcial issues to create humor but they are still sending the same message. An example of this would be a clip from "American Dad," Stan tries to talk to his gay neighbor's dad about how great his kid is but the father rejects his son. http://www.hulu.com/watch/72508/american-dad-gay-son-talk#s-p6-sr-i1. This clip shows how some families are towards their own sons/daughters, brothers/sisters. Stereotyping gays in the social world and how they are treated with everyone. The media's agenda setting is influenced everywhere in world whether it has to do with politics, social issues, entertainment, etc. but in all they are all opinionated by the media on what to show.