Posts tagged “media influence”

The US Army's free recruiting video game is working: 30% of young people with favorable views of the military credit America's Army for shaping that opinion. Dear god.

TV has replaced real human interaction as our emotional role model, training us to respond to situations the way American scriptwriters think we should. The result is hollow "sitcom moments" where we suppress natural reactions. Christmas used to be a gloriously hypocritical mess. Now everyone just tries to be nice and hates it.