Media is complex, because although it is an information-sharing tool, that everyone should have the right to access, it still is a multi-billion dollar business. This means that media companies do what every successful businesses do, they collect …show more content…
A conservative organisation and a liberal organisation may do a piece on the exact same story but may have completely different objectives and focus on different points of the story. This highlights the negative effects of media. As stated at the beginning of this article, media outlets are a business and they will do what they can in order to gain the most profit. This leads to not only the popular phenomenon that is ‘click bait’, in which outlets caption their article a certain way to capture the readers attention that leads them to click on to the article and therefore receiving the payments of the companies which ads feature alongside the …show more content…
If the student is studying religious education then obviously those ideas will be discussed but in science and social sciences there needs to be more freedom of discussion about current events without any personal beliefs in the way. But when you have members of the Texas state Board of Education that don’t believe education should be taught in public schools, it gets dangerous. As Bill Nye says, there is an economic impact, if there are young people raised believing that the world is only 10,000 years old and rejecting scientific discoveries it will suppress