I couldn’t tell you how happy I am to have the internet acting as check and balance. For the longest time the media was and to some degree still controlled by a government. You could never trust what you read. People buy two different papers just so they can read between the lines.
People changed their minds on a story three times a week, just because every day the media told a different story, and we had no control over it. It reminded me of George Orwell’s book 1984. People went to work actually to war didn’t know who they were fighting that particular morning.
I like how these days anyone with a cell phone, with a digital camera can really report the truth from anywhere in the world at almost the time of the incident.
I like it because that means the public have more weapons, more support, more knowledge, if we have more knowledge we are more powerful against the giant media.
We became more powerful against propaganda, against manipulation by government agencies, against big giant businesses, who take advantages of the normal public sitting in their houses glued to the TV, or the radios.
For instance I cannot understand why when we, here in the north east, have to be scared from the media when about to experience a snow storm. I mean come on people you don't need to get sooooooooooo scared and go shopping as if you are going to be locked up in your house for a month. I mean who doesn’t have food in his/her house that wouldn’t last at least two to three weeks. Of course I don’t mean fresh veggies, or fresh milk, bread, but BIG deal they probably have tons of canned food, pasta, etc…..they can survive the whole month without leaving the house.
I mean come on media, go home, pack it you had your time, now it is time to get your high horse, and put down the crown.
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