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Most of these pressures manifest themselves by turning the media into a tool for deception and manipulation through the use of different tricks and techniques. Identify at least one such technique and explain it in the light of relevant examples.
Media has become an integral part of human life. The media itself knows its strength and influence on its audience. Media can change one's thinking pattern and behavior by having a psychological effect. If the media repeats an event again and again and analyze it in a different way than the actual fact, the audience will get psychologically influenced and the lies will become the truth. It is called the manipulation of the human mind that will be turned into their behavior and thinking.
The media is using various tactics to influence its audience, one such tactic is advertising and repeating it again and again. The Media uses the tactics of manipulation. Manipulation is influencing audiences psychologically to change their point of view and thinking according to what media wants.
Media is successfully using the technique of manipulation through advertisement. The advertisement is not only the commodity; it is advertising and molding the thinking of its audience in favor of or against the political parties and business houses. Usually, the ruling party takes maximum advantage of Media to manipulate its people's; thinking by propagating the news that can influence them psychologically, it can be discriminative or constructive depending upon the situation.
The politicians use manipulation techniques using mainstream media it is radical programming or reprogramming of belief, emotions, and those acts that can affect the human mind in their favor.