It is all about the Benjamins

Getting rich of the media is no news to us. A 19 year old Harvard freshman makes billions of 500 million users of Facebook. After he was dumped by his girlfriend in 2003, he decided to just play around with his computer, and hence Facebook and a billion dollars in his account. Mark Zuckerman who was born in West Chester, N.Y is now in a billionaire of the media sensation- facebook. It has also been publicly announced that he is giving $100 million to the public schools of Newark, N.J.

Though, there are several controversies as to who is  the founder of Facebook, he is claimed  to be the co- founder of Facebook. Three other Harvard students claim that Mark Zuckerman stole their original idea, since Mark was hired by them to help them in making Facebook. Though, a lawsuit is pending, Mark  Zuckerman, now 26 years old is enjoying his new found riches, he's made out of the media.

Mark Zuckerman, co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, the world's largest social- network, is not only known for its membership, but a money making business where ads, information, updates of so many different things are displayed. It was reported in the New York Times that in 2005, Zuckerman turned down MTV Networks, who wanted to buy Facebook for seventy-five million dollars, and Yahoo! and Microsoft who wanted to buy it for much more.

 The media has been known to promote sole proprietorship businesses. It took a freshman to sit by his computer to make a business out of just clicking "stuff" and putting things together. It sure would be nice to  start a sole proprietorship business of something as easy to access as- the internet, the most convenient source of spreading your business.

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The Media

Hello faithful tv watchers,

Is the media just concerned about making big business than it is concerned with the consumers welfare? I am afraid so. They are concerned with the high ratings and the big bucks to actually take into perspective the risky messages they relate to us. Some of these great shows, so intense yet captivating, we can't wait to get off work, school, or better yet a business meeting to watch.

Are you a victim to shows on Lifetime, Cw, or Fx? Then welcome, you have been subliminally endowned with knowledge, you never thought you could ever in your wildest dreams ascertain. These messages have been unconsciously embedded in our subconscious mind awaiting a chance to surface. Movies on Lifetime are so full of suspense that you have to sit a whole three hours to know, what will happen to whom, who will be killed at the end of the show, or how the killer is going to kill whom. Have we ever thought about a movie with a killing scene, so gruesome yet captivating that you were glued to the chair, or better yet at a spot, waiting to see what happens next? Whether the killer was going to kill that young girl or, a husband was going to kill his wife, or a young boy or girl framing his or her teacher of sexual assault. Sounds pretty gory, but yet we can't resist to watch.

Isn't the media  a great informant? The media in itself is a great business entity, through advertisement, and  marketing. Through advertising we have been informed of safe sex, effects of drug abuse, and eating disorders. It has also advertised all these negatively. Is the media informing us not only about the must knows, but also about the mustn't knows: how to commit suicide; how to break loose from prison, and how to kill, all in the name of business?

 Let's revisit our good old shows, prison break, with Michael Scofield, (what a hunk). One of the shows on Tv, where you just had to watch the next episode, or you'll be completely clueless when watching the next episode with other faithful Tv watchers. Forget about making them your source for an update on what you missed- your loss. So your next lesson will be to stay abreast to the showtimes. As much as we might think this might be ridiculous, have we taken a minute to think that it was actually a show of many different ways, not just one, of breaking out of prison?  At least, subliminally we have been giving the knowlege of breaking out of prison, in case, we should ever get in that setting. We could tattoo a map of the inside of the prison on our body, and have the many tries of escaping a prison. Good luck on your way out.

What about this pretty good show on killing the president, 24. Is the media serious?  It is actually making a business of a show on different ways of terrorizing the nation, and killing the President? With this being said, are we to blame, when we hear husbands killing their wives, or people breaking out of prison, like we saw on Tv, or is the media to blame, by embedding these subliminal messages that may seem normal, but of a fact are completely insane? What even makes it worse is that the bad guys always seem to be winning in these Tv shows.

Children are not the only victims of violence, sex, and drugs on Tv, adults are not invincible either, therefore, we are all affected by the media consciously or subconciously. We have accepted a negative message sent to us by the media, that naturally our conscious mind will repulse, but our subconscious mind has accepted through our mind's eye. Therefore, do we as adults need to also screen what we watch, or see through the media, the most helpful source of information?

Finally, my questions resurfaces. The Media or Us, who is to blame? Is the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) doing enough to protect us, as consumers, from the negative fortification of the media, while the media takes all our hard end money to gain more victims?

This blog is prepared by a paralegal student as a class project, without compensation. The content of this blog contains my opinion, and is offered for personal interest without warranty of any kind. Comments posted by others on this blog are the responsibility of the posters of those messages. The reader is solely responsible for verifying the content of this blog and any linked information. Content, sources, information, and links will most likely change over time. The content of this blog may not be construed as legal, medical, business, or personal advice.