So, basically, everyone I had interviewed said that media was just the news you can find all over. Most of them had used the television and the internet as their resources. A couple of the interviewees had very little insight on what media was, while the other two had more of a detailed definition. It seems like no one really knew the true definition of "media". (Unless, of course, they had already taken media literature as a class)
For the impact of media, the answers were almost completely identical. Every person said the media carried important information. The rest of the answers varied slightly. Two people said it shared news from the entire world, while one said that the media showed biased arguments, and that the newspaper and Internet held the best information because it was able to present both sides of the arguments.
On whether or not each person could survive without media, each person basically came up with their own answer, but in the end it all pointed towards a no. The older the interviewee, the more knowledge they had on the subject of media. The oldest person that was interviewed gave, in my opinion, the best insight: "I've never tried to live without media, so I couldn't tell you whether or not it would be possible, in this day and age, to survive without it."
