The media is use the primary means of mass communication regarded collectively. At best they are means to figure out the errors of society and the government. At their worst, they are tools used to dumb down society. George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games present an iconic vision of a dystopian future, where the media has an unprecedented amount of control of the masses.
Those who control the media, controlled what the citizens know about history and current events. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, the media was seen as a tool of oppressor, spreading the propaganda necessary to keep the totalitarian state alive and the party in power. The media worked by withholding information from its citizens.