Me Against the Media PA #8

Hanna Hudson
Palee Xiong


In the article Me Against the Media, by Naomi Rockler-Gladen, she makes a very strong arguement reviewing the effects of advertisement on younger generations. She also concentrates on how easily people in this age group are willing to brush off the responsibility of the impact to their parents or elders. Another issue with (what she refferred to as), Generation Y, was that they thought they were immune to the advertizing industries because of their individualism. I think Naomi comes back with a great point that just because advertising does not neccessarily effect the individual, it does effect society as a whole. In comparison to the steven Johnson article, TV Makes You Smarter, we think that Naomi would disagree with his statements. In the sense that along with TV comes advertising, which in this case, Naomi does not think is the healthiest type of entertainment for younger minds. Also in the Amy Goldwasser article titled, What's the Matter with Kids Today?, we think that Naomi would agree that people of a younger generation have different ways of learning than older generations. But this would also apply to the things that effect them as far as advertising as well.