One of the criticisms Berger talks about in Chapter 5 is how in today’s media, such as reality television, reality is misrepresented. For example, take The Real World. This is not really representative of the actual real world. The program is completely staged; take a bunch of young adults and liquor them up and claim that that’s the “real world?” Also I agree with how violence in the media today effects the consciousness of the audience. Because it is so prevalent, people are becoming more and more desensitized to violence, using it as an answer for problems and having no remorse about it because hey, that’s how everyone solves their problems, it’s shown all over television. Berger also tells how women are degraded through media. This is seen especially through music videos where women are seen as inferior to men, and if you listen to some of the lyrics, they are pretty degrading towards women. Defenders of the media claim that there is no concrete proof for these criticisms, but I believe we have a lot of evidence to back up these criticisms. For example, there have been studies done to show that young children exposed to media containing violence such as video games or action movies grow up using violence as an answer to their problems.
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