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ABSTRACT

This study is premised on espousing the link between mainstream media and the philosophy of teaching in shaping happening and human existence. The study is a compendium of the literature surveyed to show the progress of mainstream media from conventional paper and television to the internet while establishing their impact on the lives of people who most times read their articles incidentally. More so, research has shown that unstructured news gets into unwitting readers causing the devastating effect. A philosophy that makes for compatible reasoning and provides a guide for human existence is applied in this article to show its core principle and how it could transform modern society. As such the paper found its voice in the current state of news reporting in the world, current challenges and the hope philosophers pose to journalism, and with the use of specific perspectives, occasions which can be separated through half a century and a huge expanse of technological advances are offered as lenses with which to have a examine our collective obsession of the sensational and how this obsession might also additionally affect our perspective as well as our next picks. Looking in the direction of the increasing number of related future, the demanding situations and monetary implications of our susceptibility to sensational media are explored so that in the end, the readers will have acquired insights on mass media’s strength to determine our notions of truth.