Buckley and Mukherjee’s essays are saying media and pop culture can benefit from needed change. In Buckley’s essay he wants he’s readers to know more about the culture. The media culture impact was on empathy small inconveniences and make apathy towards larger concerns in American culture. In Mukherjee’s essay she wants her readers to know that culture doesn’t change her, we change ourselves. Pop culture in India is different from American culture.