This week in class we discussed many things but we mainly talked how the media can be misleading and misconstrued. Sometimes we see things about fake news and how some things on television aren’t are always true or that they don’t appear to be true. On Monday, we watched a video in class that i found pretty interesting and it focused on the mean world syndrome that media had installed us with. Mean world syndrome is when you have an idea that more negative information and news that you are shown by how dangerous the world is, and on the most personal level, the more likely you will think you might become the victim in our world. It has been found that you might feel more victimized the more likely you will be. Gerber has said that the more television that you watch, the more paranoid and fearful that you will become. What is more weird about this theory is that though crime rate is dropping, the majority of people believe that it is increasing and there is higher chance of the day to day violence

.I definitely think what you watch has something to do with how you view the world. I watch a lot of crime and police shows and i will say that i am very shocked on what they show on those shows and i think about how some of those things that they show may have actually happened. There are really sad and upsetting stories of bad things happening to people and it makes me upset and you never think that would happen to someone.

Another thing we discussed in our class was the power of authority. One example that stuck to me was when the food manager at a fast food place strip searching a high school employee because someone on the phone was telling them to do so. The person on the phone claimed to be the police and of high authority so the manager thought that she had to listen to commands. The entire scenario was crazy because i kept thinking that i would have never done that type of thing to someone.