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Until recently, I hadn't realized the impact that censorship has had on my life.  Last semester, while studying abroad in Europe, I witnessed many television and newspaper articles giving information that I would never expect to see in the media in the United States.  I was not oblivious to the censorship going on in America, but I became aware of the vast differences between Spain and the United States.  One afternoon I talked to my host family about the censorship in their country Being so different, it was often shocking and a surprise to witness.  I learned from my family that they did not think of the news, those that I was shocked by, as shocking at all.  They grew up with a certain amount of censorship, just on a different level than I had.  What interests me is that most likely, the individuals of Spain are not more prone to violence or mentally corrupted somehow because of the lower level or censorship portrayed in the news.  Yet, in reading the first few chapters of Media and Society, there has been much fear towards the media of being potentially damaging and corrupt, especially for youth.  Would it matter to individuals if we as a country had a lower level of censorship exposure from birth?

  

Links:

stories China's media could not write

mapping censorship

olympics and net censorship