Experience & the Max Headroom Episode

As long as you have had good exposure instead of negative exposure to the media, most people will likely believe what they saw on TV. Most students in our class could relate to the episode of the Max Headroom series entitled "War" because of what is going on in our country today. Today, we watch the news and read magazines and newspapers to follow along with what is going on over in Iraq. Unless we are over there we are forced to believe that what we see and read is what is really going on over there.

In this episode, their society believed that a terrorist group had bombed an area and wiped it out. Instead, it was all a set up so that the news' ratings would sky rocket. This attack was fake and was a money scheme. The episode even stated that "Ratings are everything...if they don't buy this package someone else will. "

Society can't believe that everything they see or read is true. Most of us believe though, that since we've had only good experiences with the media then this time shouldn't be any different.