Is what we see and hear in the media real? Is it all true because it was in the media?
             These are the controversial arguments going on throughout the world today. Mass media has been throwing us opinions, views and stereotypes for years and years now, that tell us what we should do, what we should believe in and how we should live.
             There once use to be a saying, "Of course it's true!! I just seen it on the television and read it in the paper."
             Now ask yourself how many people you know would say that now? So much uninformative and misinterpreted information have prevented people from making decisions best for themselves and their community surrounding them. The mass media are constantly and repetitively positioning and influencing the public to have opinions that are so called "accepted" and following the mainstream in which society runs.
             It is fair to say that it is impossible to give an overview of the unrealistic print and verbal media exposed to the public's eye.
             The media has played a major role in our cultural obsessions with staying young, dieting and with changing our appearance to suit others. Everyday we are bombarded with these stereotypes and ideologies that are said to be fitting within the society's beliefs. Whether it is present in magazines, newspapers, television, close manufacturers or the fashion industry they all stand to profit from selling unrealistic stereotypes and sending unhealthy messages to the public.
             These idealized images are often accepted without a question.
             Such acceptance puts pressure on people, particularly adolescents such as you and me, to believe and be like these stereotypes. When our self beliefs don't match up to what is being portrayed, our body image, mental and physical health and self esteem plunder. But even if we don't believe and agree with the mass media's ideologies, we are still picked out and damned for going against the...