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Please read the questions below and write an essay.

Initial post due by Wednesday at 11:59 pm

Please refer to the syllabus for complete instructions and expectations for discussion posts. Your individual response should be about 350 words minimum and should refer to textbook concepts. When replying to classmates, your posts should continue the discussion and be about a paragraph in length.

Instructions:

1. List some ways in which the mass media may contribute to or cause negative social effects.

2. Can people working in the media do something to lessen the negative effects? Consider what interventions could be made in the education of media professionals to solve these problems. What factors work against your proposed solutions? In other words, what are competing influences in the media industry that might stymie reforms? Do people working within the mass media have a responsibility to try to lessen negative media effects?