mass media. Each approach helps illustrate a different focus on society. They

each hold special relevance in a discussion of the history of societal beliefs.

The Mass Society refers to the overall belief C. Wright Mills held in relation to

the type of society he believed we live in. Mills began The Power Elite with a

bold statement saying, "The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the

everyday words in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family, and

neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor

govern" (Mills, 1956, p.3). This opening sentence helps describe the attitude

as a literacy form, but as a social form tightly constrained by the routines of

exclusion of social aims; business practice more regularly began to reward

elite is at the top making all the decisions, while the masses are at the bottom,

Reality was public, but became more concerned with what the individual was

distribution of income" and described the 1800's as "more people acquired

society tuning in to hear the details. Gitlin is also very true in his beliefs of

(Schudson, p.151). Objectivity developed in response to crisis, when journalism

way to see the world. "As our minds become deeply aware of their own

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