The Media

ELL 2035

Warm Up1. If you divide your average day, how

much time do you spend on various media?

2. What negative impact has the media had? What positive impact has the media had?

3. How does the media influence soci-ety?

Lesson• How the media has affected Amer-

icaOver 100 years of newspapers, radio, TV,

Internet, and social media affecting us politically and socially.

• How the American/Western media has affected others

The influence of American/Western media on Korea.

Vocabulary

1. yellow journalism

2. to sensationalize /

sensationalism

3. to distort

4. to exploit

5. to internalize

6. brunch

7. a white knight

8. to catch up with someone

a. to make something appear more shocking than

it really is

b. to use something/someone for your own

advantage

c. a snack between breakfast and lunch

d. a hero / a person who saves another

e. to change or misrepresent something

f. to share the latest news with a friend

g. to incorporate something (morals, beliefs, ideas)

to fit into your own values

h. news that is inaccurate but rather relies on

extreme headlines to grab readers’ attention

How the media has affected Amer-ica

Two political situations that were in-fluenced by media 100 years apart.

Political: Newspapers

Yellow Journalism• scare headlines in huge print, often of

minor news • over usage of pictures, or imaginary

drawings • use of faked interviews, misleading

headlines, fake science, and false in-formation from so-called “experts”

• dramatic sympathy with the "under-dog" against the system

William Randolph Hearst

Cuba

1890s (1898)

1898 – Spanish-American War

1898 – Spanish-American War

Sensationalism MERS?

Political: TV

Terrorism

9-11

2,996 deaths

What are the odds of dying in a terrorist attack?

• Heart disease – 1:5• Cancer – 1:7• Car accident – 1:100• Air travel – 1:20,000• Lightning Strike – 1:83,930• Snake, Bee or Spider – 1:100,000• Dog attack – 1:147,717

• Terrorism – 1:20,000,000

Origin of the 19 hijackers

Saudi Arabia – 15United Arab Emirates – 2

Egypt – 1Lebanon - 1

69% of Americans thoughtIraq was behind the attack

Casualties

Socially: TV

Distorted body image

Make women feel insecure

Movie and TV Stars

How much do you knowi. What percentage of Americans is overweight and

obese? 68%

ii. What percentage of British is overweight and obese?

64%iii. What percentage of Australians is overweight and

obese? 63%

iv. What percentage of Koreans is overweight and obese? 30%

Media shaping us

How the American/Western media has affected others

The influence of American/Western media on Korea.

Americanization/Westernization of Korea

How Westernized are you?1. Do you have your own 한복?2. What was the last Hollywood movie you have seen?3. Do you watch more Korean movies or more Holly-

wood movies?4. Do you watch more Korean or Western TV programs?5. How often do you eat western fast food: McDon-

ald’s (Burgers), Pizza Hut (Pizza), KFC (fried chicken)?

6. How often do you go to a 한의원 (traditional Korean medicinal clinic)?

7. Would you live with your boy/girlfriend before marriage?

8. What kind of wedding would you have – Western / Korean style?

9. Do you 100% obey your parents?10. Do you call Scott by his first name?

V-line: sharp chin/jaw

Soap opera

Is a type of show (first radio, then TV) that airs in the afternoon (1pm-5pm) for housewives.

The acting was very dramatic, like an opera.Soap, detergent, shampoo, laundry soap companies used to show their commercials during this time. These advertisements were aimed at house-wives.

That is where the name soap opera comes from.

멜로 / melodramaa romantic comedy (a rom-com)

클락션 / Klaxona horn

깁스 / Gyp(sum) (gips)a cast

아르바이트 / to worka part-time job