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<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Saunders’ “The Braindead Megaphone” discusses the idea of society being led by the news, or what’s exposed to them on a daily basis. Throughout the article, the constant use of the “Megaphone Guy” at a party, serves as a metaphor to represent the ideas being put out there and becoming societies topics. The guy with the megaphone intends to distract people and make them talk about random topics that he keeps bringing up. Although, at some point his audience stops discussing what he is saying and he fades away into the background without being noticed as they lose interest in the topics. In the same way society today loses interest when they don’t seem interested in a topic. For the main role of “the Informant’s main job is to entertain and that, if he fails in this, he’s gone” (Saunders). Therefore, if society is not interested in what is being said we have to take it into our matters to use our voice to reflect our ideas clear, “precise, intelligent, and humane as possible” in order for people to relate and make a change (Saunders).</span>