When I look back my life, I can find my life was always surrounded by mass media.
I like to read magazines. Because I’m come from Japan, the English-Written books are really hard to read for me. However, the magazines have a lot of photos and the articles are easy to understand, so it is really help me to practice English.
On the other hand, English News Paper is too difficult for me to understand. Most of News papers are using specific words, and I don’t like to read even Japanese one. If I want to know news of the day, I just turn on TV, and it is easier to get the world wide information. I also don’t really use Records and Radio. Nowadays, the internet became more and more useful, so I don’t need to use Records, CD, or Radio to listen music.
I love watching movies, especially love stories. Movies can let me enjoy the ideal world other than real life. Whenever I feel depress, the movies can make me happy and encourage me.
After all the best media for me is Internet. Before I came to United States, I didn’t realize how Internet can impact my life. Now, I’m using internet every day. Internet can let me download music and movies which from Japan. It can let me watch Japanese TV, and even speak with my family for free. Internet is a necessary tool for International student. I can’t believe the life without internet anymore.

I think Japanese media has much more impact for audience than America. When some big problems come out, the media start to broadcast these again and again. It can truly influence the audience to really care about the problem even though it is not so serious actually. For example, when I went back to Japan this summer, the TV shows repeat that how flu is dangers and serious again and again. Because of the media, many people start to wear mask, and vaccination almost run out.
Mass Media can influence the audience both in positive and negative ways. To give information for audience is a good thing, but Media should know sometimes they can let all the audiences get into panic.