But Wait: How DOES The Media Tell You What To Think?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: CONFORM CONSUME OBEY Tweet us! Idea Channel Facebook! Talk about this episode on reddit! Idea Channel IRC! Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Does the media control our brains?.... Probably not, but you can’t argue that the media–news, entertainment, even educational media–is able to handily deliver messages which impact the way we see the world. We learn our personal values from our parents, friends, colleagues, and authority figures but we also gain tons of insight about ourselves and the world from the arts, sciences, politics, entertainment, journalism... much information about this stuff gets to us through the media. The question is: as the media is bringing information and insight to us, and that info-slash-insight is having some kind of impact on our thoughts and actions, how exactly does that happen? In today’s “But Wait!” episode, we explore 3 different possibilities. Let us know what you think in the comments below! -- MERCH! -- T-Shirts Designed by: -- TWEET OF THE WEEK -- -- Links -- No Don’t Die The Hustle Economy -- ASSET LINKS -- 00:00:50 Fox News Wayne Simmons 01:05 Art Trip: Tijuana 01:06 Why Salt and pepper? 01:07 Ted Cruz 01:07:16 $100 Stolen 01:08 Ukraine’s Brutal war 01:34 Media is Mass 01:43 Magic Bullet 01:54 Komm Zu uns 01:58 Germania 02:01 Make Mine Freedom 02:14 Make Mine Freedom - Continue 02:18 My Japan 02:34 War of Worlds 02:38 Adolf Hitler 03:46 Computer hoodie 03:48 The confession 04:24 Ghostbusters 04:46 They Live Sunglasses 04:51 Ted Talk Tristen Harris 04:54 5 Easy Self-Care 04:58 Your Illness is not your Fault 05:01 First Time Eating Hawaiian Food 05:08 Two Step Flow Media Clusters/Mass Media/Two_Step_Flow_Theory-1/ 05:57 Media Maze Image @AIWLOCOQ/The-Hypodermic-needle-theory 06:03 Global Social Media 06:19 PBS Nova Creatures of the Night 07:08 Media Brainwash Image 07:10 $100 Stolen - Continue 07:13 Why Salt and pepper? - Continue 08:05 Mere Exposure 10:19 Ghostbusters - Continue -- MUSIC -- Monotone - Minimalist -- PERSONNEL -- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: ) Made by Kornhaber Brown ()