Blog#1: Interviews: What is Media?

The interviews we conducted in media lit class had to do with one main topic..the media. I interviewed four people and asked them four different questions. One question, and the most obvious was "what is media?" My interviewee, who was and 11th grader answered that he thought it was things like the radio, tv (shows, reality, and the news,) newspapers, internet, music, friends; basically whatever we get info from whether good/bad, biased or not. Another question was "what media do you think should be banned?". Another interviewee thought it should be the newspaper because it isnt really used by people our age so therefore should be taken out entirely. In a way I do agree that a lot of people my age dont read the newspaper, but at the same time, there are a few teenagers who do and very many adults who do and it's still a way to express freedom of the press so it shouldn't be banned. Likewise this question was asked. "how do the "media" impact your life?" Another interviewee answered that "the media in a way tells us how we should live, who we should know and talk to, and that the media is biased so affects the wasy we think."
All of these interview were interesting, especially hearing the answers from different perspectives.