Had a huge discussion on egregious media misrepresentation of basically every single event ever in my Global Perspectives class today. I don't care how many times I hear from people who have either been in the military recently or who know someone that is; hearing what really went down versus what the media reported will always make me angry. It's like how I still get shocked whenever I see the AP print something that I
know, from previous research or whatever, is not true. And my professor brought in Honduran newspapers and compared them with what our media is saying about their election troubles at the moment. Talk about... yeah. His friends in Honduras got
really annoyed when he shared with them what the American press was saying. And we spent some time on all the witch hunts they've created in the past, essentially destroying the lives of quite a few people for no reason whatsoever, convincing the American public that they were guilty of terrible things when in reality, if they had reported all the facts from the beginning, nobody would have ever believed in their guilt. It seems that with most things discussed, they reported approximately 2-5% of the facts, and that 2-5% are only the ones that correlated with what they
thought should be happening, and they distorted that little bit that they did report so much with speculation that even it wasn't true anymore.
It was fascinating purely because that is a discussion that I usually reserve for having with friends... It's sad, though, because most people will acknowledge to you that the American media have no credibility, but then the next day they will repeat what is basically a rumor that has been reported as fact. They really do control people's thoughts and opinions. And it's weird because I understand the political bias; it is a fact that the vast majority of
mainstream journalists share the same political viewpoints, and without a significant portion of people there that do not, there isn't really going to be any credibility whatsoever because without adequate opposition they're free to create any reality they want... That is just common sense... But the rest, stuff that has to do with just individual people or with other nations that we don't currently have a military presence in? Man, they love their sensationalism.
I still read the news, though.
Just take it with a huge grain of salt, especially when it comes to certain things.
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