Media literacy as defined is "The process of understanding and using the mass media in an assertive and non-passive way. This includes an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the media, the techniques used by them and the impact of these techniques." I never really put too much thought into how much media actually affects our world today. Some points from the video that seemed important to me were about how corporations are in the end looking to make money, just like everything there is much corruption. If running a story is going to make a newspaper loose advertisements there likely not going to share that story, and us as the viewers are deprived from that information. The video also mentioned that the two trends we are seeing in media are corporate, consolidated, centralized versus media that is diverse, local, independent. People would assume that independently owned media outlets would be more honest but I don't know if that is necessarily true because money would be tighter in a independently owned business.
Also I think it’s only expected that there are groups excluded from media, not every story can apply to every person, it’s just impossible. Most of all media is powerful it controls our thoughts, desires and everyday activities it can be a beautiful thing that expires us to do good and achieve but also can be destructive because modernly magazines and media outlets are driven solely by money so the good staples of media are being forgotten for advertisements and junk values.
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