The first thing that comes to mind when I think how the media have been blamed for real life problems, is when people claim that the media controls our perspective of beauty. The shows and commercials on TV have a large percentage of unrealistically attractive people, most of which have been prepared for hours beforehand in order to fill their roles. Some people have been led to believe that this is what the standard of how people should look like and act like, and start to feel as if something wrong is with them if they don't match up to these 'average' people portrayed. Whoever this has affected can blame the media for misleading them, and possibly creating some sort of problem in their lives.
Good example. Media are often blamed for eating disorders.
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