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This 3 page paper looks at mass media and education and how the two co-exist in society. The problem of mass media, and how it hinders education, is a focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and not computers and when they do get computers in, they are generally last years models, if they are lucky. Updating, and keeping up with the times--inclusive of the riddance
of the 9 to 5 work day--is something unfathomable to the educational system that does not want to change. It is therefore no wonder that academia looks down upon mass
media, something that has seemingly taken the liberty to educate the youth and the people with new shows and new points of view. It is no longer the teacher teaching
the culture, but mass media. This new phenomenon, in part prompted by technology, has affected education, its organization, content and philosophy. It has shaken the sensibilities of teachers, so much
so that there is a vehement and antagonistic relationship between education as it is known and mass media. Does mass media and education have, as
claimed by Gustavo Villamizar (1997) "irreconcilable and contradictory dynamics." He goes on to say that "the school does not hold hegemony over education, and the media are not the
annihilators of the school system." Indeed, one does wonder why there has to be antagonism and why the two cannot coincide in a peaceful, complimentary relationship. To some
extent, purpose enters the picture, and to this end, Villamizar (1997) suggests that mass media is more interested in entertainment while education has the goal of creating good citizens. To
some extent, this is true. At the same time, media does claim to want to give out credible information and that information is a large part of their goal, not
entertainment. While mass media tries to hang onto its credibility, whenever a young , white girl is missing from her home as in the cases of Chandra Levy, Elizabeth
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