Today, the media uses different techniques to capture an audience. <The Truman Show>, presented by Paramount Pictures in 1998, delves into the manipulation of a human being and highlights the destructive power of the media. Often the media is seen to invade a personality’s life in order to capture an audience. In this hypothetical instance, the media in fact completely controls a man’s life, after an unwanted pregnancy, in an attempt to create the …showed first 75 words of 687 total…

…showed last 75 words of 687 total…media and how they invade people’s lives in the relentless pursuit of ratings to gain money. It is the irony of the fact that a producer created a life and a man to which he then cruelly destroyed for his own benefit that makes a serious point. The use of satire is successful as it captures the audience’s attention, yet leaves them with the knowledge of what the media could be capable of.