Blog #2

After viewing the video, I came to a few realizations. America's saturation with the media is more tremendous than I had initially anticipated. I forget how omnipresent the media is in our everyday lives. As made evident by the video, children are heavily targeted by the media. When I was little, there was a time when I wanted to buy a certain cereal because it had a Jurassic Park dinosaur on the box. Let me tell you something. I don't like cereal. This video reinforces the effect the media has on children. Although I knew of America's obesity epidemic, I never really drew the connection to the media. Like the time when I wanted the Jurassic Park cereal, children are easily influenced by what they see. From the moment they are born, someone in the world is trying to get them to persuade mom and dad to buy them a certain toy, game, or candy bar. The saddest part about all of this is, I, myself, didn't realize the problem. This proves how truly saturated we are with the media. When you don't realize the effect the media has on your everyday life, that's when you can truly see how absorbed we are by the media.