In chapter 8 we learned about mass communication. Mass communication is when media organizations share specific information to a large public and the public sees, listens and understands the message that those organizations are portraying. Mass communication can be positive when the message shared by those organizations have a positive intention towards the audience such as acknowledging people on mental help, among many other things that can benefit society. However, sometimes mass communication can be negative because some organizations’ owners might funnel down the information they share in their networks according to their personal agenda. Some people believe that just because it’s on the internet or a famous newspaper is sharing a particular information, that information is true. Be careful, some information can seem good but it might be hiding a negative intention behind. You have to question the validity of every information that you are consuming. Who does it benefit? What’s the motive? etc.

The cartoon represents how journalists sometimes try to share positive stories about a person but news owners don’t like those type of journals because “if it bleeds, it leads.” People tend to pay more attention to stories that are negative. Media owners think in terms of consumers rather than citizens. From personal experience, my grandma watches news 24/7 and she believes every single thing she sees or hears. I remember during 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, she heard on the news that people needed to wear 3-5 face mask so they can remain healthy, so every time she went outside she would use 4 face mask, glasses, two pairs of gloves, spray herself with Lysol before coming inside the house, etc.

An organization is a group of two or more people that work together toward achieving a common purpose. Organizations are corporations and the serviced industry. Organizations also include non-profit companies such as schools, governments, churches, small businesses, etc. Critical approaches categorize organizations as “sites of domination” (Miller 116). In every organization there is always one group who is negatively affected or marginalized by the politics and structures that the company operates. 

This cartoon represents how some people shut their mouths because they might be experiencing financial instability, so they accept maltreatment from their employers and however are in a higher position than them to keep that job. From personal experience, I work in a retail store, and the way that cashiers are maltreated by managers is insane. Sometimes, cashiers have to work 12-hour shifts, they don’t have a stool or anything in which they can rest a little bit while the store is not busy. Also, when customers maltreat cashiers, the managers always talk badly in front of the customers because “customers are always right” even though most of the time it is the customer’s fault. The more humiliating thing is that when the customer leaves the store, the managers like to joke about that moment and tell cashiers “Don’t pay those customers no mind, you know that we cannot lose our customers and they are always right.” In my mind, it is like: so you can’t lose a customer but you will feel very good about losing a great employee. Unfortunately, some people have to accept those humiliations because otherwise they could lose their jobs, and losing their jobs also means losing control of the economy.