Full Circle: The Media & our Moods
Sometimes I wonder with this little world we live in...how much impact does the media really have on our lives? I already know that answer.
I was talking to a former news reporter the other day who was very tight lipped about why he/she resigned but one of the reasons was because of the Terrorism/Sept 11th scare. He/She was being told to report false news, exaggerated news, all sorts of propaganda to scare us. The purpose of it and my opinion is a whole 'nother entry but it's amazing how they had the country shitting themselves every morning when they would report the security color of the country. I remember when it would go from blue one day to orange the next day and me being the perceptive teenager I was at the time, it would scare me and I would wonder how in one day can we be free of a terrorist attack then we're capable of a full blown terrorist attack the next day. Just thinking back on that it was so ridiculous, the Osama Bin Laden videos (are we still looking for him?), the "Shock and Awe" coverage when we were going to war, them telling us the color codes regarding the security of the country but not telling us exactly why and how it got to that point for that day, Bush and his "we're gonna kick their ass" speech it was just one big freakin circus. Now you rarely hear about terrorism compared to the previous decade. What happened all of a sudden? Just like you don't hear about swine flu unless they feel like bringing it to the platform...what happened to that?
I'm pretty sure any smart person can differentiate between sensationalism and realism but there are still a lot of people out there that trust what anyone on the television is telling them. Why is it that we are so quick to trust these people feeding us information on the television without questioning or doing extensive research? Because I have definitely been that person at one point and can still be that person. Reality is reality, period, we are not in that good of a place...it is what it is but it's always good to question what is being fed to you.
We're living in a world now where we cannot trust anything unless it is validated by someone behind a television screen or a computer screen. For ex: my friend was talking to me about a woman who saw with her own eyes the twin towers being destroyed but she had to turn on the television to verify if what she was seeing is real. A lot of us have this mentality! How many of us have not trusted what a person said they were up to because it was not posted via facebook,myspace,blogger,twitter,aim etc? Human v Machine, that's what it's coming to these days and ironically our actions are reflecting it
- If we turned on the news tomorrow and they were rejoicing on how the recession has magically ended & everything was going to be okay would everyone think the same?
- If we turned on the news tomorrow and they posted a warning about a growing nation wide panic regarding food shortage, how many people would get up and start looting and rioting for food just because "they" said it?
- With all this 2012 propaganda being displayed I honestly think there are gonna be a bunch of foolies the day 2012 strikes or Dec 21 2012 arrives that will cause some chaos to come into existence.
I was talking to a former news reporter the other day who was very tight lipped about why he/she resigned but one of the reasons was because of the Terrorism/Sept 11th scare. He/She was being told to report false news, exaggerated news, all sorts of propaganda to scare us. The purpose of it and my opinion is a whole 'nother entry but it's amazing how they had the country shitting themselves every morning when they would report the security color of the country. I remember when it would go from blue one day to orange the next day and me being the perceptive teenager I was at the time, it would scare me and I would wonder how in one day can we be free of a terrorist attack then we're capable of a full blown terrorist attack the next day. Just thinking back on that it was so ridiculous, the Osama Bin Laden videos (are we still looking for him?), the "Shock and Awe" coverage when we were going to war, them telling us the color codes regarding the security of the country but not telling us exactly why and how it got to that point for that day, Bush and his "we're gonna kick their ass" speech it was just one big freakin circus. Now you rarely hear about terrorism compared to the previous decade. What happened all of a sudden? Just like you don't hear about swine flu unless they feel like bringing it to the platform...what happened to that?
I'm pretty sure any smart person can differentiate between sensationalism and realism but there are still a lot of people out there that trust what anyone on the television is telling them. Why is it that we are so quick to trust these people feeding us information on the television without questioning or doing extensive research? Because I have definitely been that person at one point and can still be that person. Reality is reality, period, we are not in that good of a place...it is what it is but it's always good to question what is being fed to you.
We're living in a world now where we cannot trust anything unless it is validated by someone behind a television screen or a computer screen. For ex: my friend was talking to me about a woman who saw with her own eyes the twin towers being destroyed but she had to turn on the television to verify if what she was seeing is real. A lot of us have this mentality! How many of us have not trusted what a person said they were up to because it was not posted via facebook,myspace,blogger,twitter,aim etc? Human v Machine, that's what it's coming to these days and ironically our actions are reflecting it
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