I feel like the mass media has affected my worldview in both a positive and negative light, from a young age I was always watching shows that were usually abnormal for a young boy to be watching, I was irrevocably without a doubt in love with Sailor Moon. The show itself was targeted towards young girls but that didn't stop me, there was nothing more exciting for me than watching Serena throw her moon tiara at the bad guys in the name of love and whatever else she was fighting for. To me I think it was more or less the idea that even a young teenage girl could be considered a hero which was against the usual superhero norm of say batman or superman who were these big super jacked guys who fought crime. Now of course my love for sailor moon also didn't really help with people judging me since I should have been watching more "normal" boy shows, since it isn't very manly to watch a bunch of girls run around and fight bad guys, but for the most part they just didn't get it.
The media also affected me rather negatively back in my younger days as well in regards to my appearance. At the time of when I was around at least nine or eleven years of age I remember that only blonde guys were considered attractive, and of course I wasn't blonde so I thought I wasn't attractive, now let's keep in mind that I'm still rather young and I'm worrying about this which is completely ridiculous. I used to as my mom all the time if we could dye hair blonde cause I wanted to be viewed as attractive or desirable, looking back I'm so happy she never let me cause I would have looked like such a goon with blonde hair. This was just one way that the media had affected me in such away, around the same time the 9/11 incident had happened, now of course I was still young so I didn't quite grasp what was going on when I had first heard what happened but then someone had explained it to me, this of course skewed my view of the world as the event showed me that real evil still exists in the world. My view of people became somewhat distorted after that because I felt like you couldn't really trust people for whatever reason and it took me awhile to actually get over this.
All in all I know that the mass media doesn't intend on inciting hatred nor does it intend to instil great morals, it's there for more of an educator how we perceive the knowledge they are providing is up to us we can either view at as a positive medium or we can view it as evil incarnate if you're really super against it for whatever reason.
