Mass Media

• The media acts a netural antimuons server
• Provide information on events, institution and trends
• media investigate institutions like churches, school
• Watch dogs pf the highest and of lowest
• Media can be used to influence public opinion
• Media is an important part of our society
• The first newspaper published in the English-speaking Caribbean was The Royal Gazette, which appeared on January 12, 1718.
• It is used to describe all those methods of communication which have been developed to reach vast audiences
• The Barbados Advocate was started in 1671.
• The Trinidad Guardian was founded in 1905 as the Trinidad Weekly Chronicle.
• Mass media refers to newspapers, magazines, radio, television, films, billboards, posters, etc., that are designed to communicate with large numbers of people at once.
• the mass media is often referred to as the fourth estate because it performs many of the same functions as the other three estates (legislative, executive, judicial)
• Mass media refers to any means or form of mass communication that reaches large numbers of people at once.
• The media and sensational -refers to any information that boarders on extremes and captures the publics attention readily such as - gruesome murders, rapes, fraud lifestyles of politicians, celebrities sportsmen/women and business persons. it sells so it guarantees a wider readership more papers are purchased and radio and listened to and TV watched
• Media literacy involves understanding how different types of media work, what their purposes are, who produces them, and why they might have certain effects on us.
• Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate messages using various forms of media.