Media effects

Mean world syndrome

Mean world syndrome is the way in which the media make things to be worse than they are. Usually referring to news, it talks about how the media make the news and the world to be worse than it is in terms of things like violence. There have been quite a few people saying that the different things that happen across the world shouldn’t be blown up. There was a shooting in a school in Germany, and the media blew it up. They got unnecessary videos of the murderer before the crime to make the news progress on and keep going.

It creates a paranoia and can induce fear into the modern-day society. This syndrome can be related to the columbine massacre. The recreation and the dramatisations being shown on a range of different media platforms. These different types are all seen and can influence the way the public feel about the issues in America. The reactions of what happened, this can influence another form of the same issue. This identifies the issue as the incident happened so long ago but it is still bought up till this day. The incident was made into a film with Michael Moore called bowling for columbine. 

Moral panic
Moral panic, is the rise of a subject or new story in the media that causes the media to act upon it and blow it out of the water. Moral panic, is the way that the media extenuate the news making it seem a lot worse then it actually is. The theory goes around and creates a dramatic reaction from the audience making them believe what is being said but also makes the audience blow it out of the water. As well as this, the theory states that as soon as there is a new story the previous story is faded into nothing and the new story is blown out of proportion.