MEDIA

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to do something to make them rise, and they go for this young bride-to-be with some cheap journalism, which really was extremely hurtful. The British , especially papers like The Sun and The News of The World are just sensational publications and use their power to sell papers only. There should be a regulation body in place to ensure that someone's private life remains just that - private.
To study the effect and the process of amplification we can look at sociologists like Stan Cohen and Jock Young who were particularly interested in this. Young and Cohen looked at the studied the in terms of how it creates interaction between itself and the individuals who watch or read it.

Amplification is important while looking at if, why and how the media influences the general public, Marxists believe that through amplification the bourgeois can change opinion in the minds of the masses, in turn controlling the way in which the general public act, feel and think. Stuart Hall in his ...

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