Ideas for "Take Charge" Assignment

Part 1:

I guess this part won't be very long since there is no multi-part question to answer or anything. I suppose the main point I want to get out before I start discussing the topic I'd like to research is that even though I may not have found any specific sources as examples of my topic that were to my liking, I know that they will be easy to find. In fact, some sources ideally could be as simple as a consumer report that we could examine for loaded language or signs of an aggressive argument towards one end concerning a product or action.



Part 2:

I would like to look into how media sources blow certain issues of health and personal lifestyles out of proportion in an attempt to force a change on the public. I have noticed in many reports of some new discovery concerning food or other consumer products that the form of media presenting the report tends to treat the news as either a critical health risk or the exact opposite, even if such results occur under the most ideal conditions. Furthermore, the media presents the notion that the newfound practices or products, whether beneficial or detrimental, should be immediately adopted or rejected by the public as if it were not just the best, but the only option. In the cases of food that may cause harm to certain parts of the body or a consumer product that causes damage to the user or another object, somewhere someone forgot to mention that those problems occur with overuse or over-exposure. The beneficial services, such as weight loss programs, present a more convenient way to achieve desired results, not the only way. The media also attacks lifestyles, such as people who play too many computer games. The media treats it like an epidemic, but the truth is that there will always be a small group of the planet's population who choose to live in such a way, and that lifestyle will not consume the entire population.