Ideas on the media and how it effects us

As I've been reading News The Politics of Illusion I've been thinking about how I feel the media has effected the subjects I'm commenting on. The idea of sensationalizing has emerged as an important subject throughout the text. When sources overuse imagery to create news or feeling out of a seemingly dead topic to in turn drum up ratings, it adversely effects the population tuning in. Many other topics related to sensationalizing are stereotyping, generalizations, overreaction, and misconstruction. These topics stretch beyond "bias" into a realm of danger, where the public is being stimulated just for reaction. Nothing good can come of anything of the sort.