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Media heavily influences our lives and our perceptions of the world. For example, consider that by the time most US students graduate high school they will have spent nearly 15,000 hours in front of a television, compared with 11,000 hours in a classroom with a teacher (Murray, 2007). Hence, students spend more time with a television than a teacher. Also, consider that NBC (the US-based National Broadcasting Corporation) is owned by General Electric, one of the world’s largest weapons producers; this relationship between television programming and weapons- production certainly informs the types of programs shown on NBC. Yet this relationship and the message embedded in it are hidden from most viewers. Certainly NBC programming will support the worldview that heavy defense spending is a necessity and that evil threats lurk in the distance (Trautman, 2009). Television and mass media, then, is clearly an influential technology that informs our worldviews, beliefs and practices.
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