I have always been cynical about what the media reports, don't get me wrong I believe it is a good tool to have around as with me it raises thoughts, but in believe what it reports I can never find myself believing what is written as fact, as I personally have no proof. I like to see interviews where people are being questioned, but even then I have found over the years biases can prevail.
I do believe media can make people believe something by feeding the same information time after time, as the more you read something, the more it can be seen as fact.
Media can help educate but it is after reading and or seeing something it offers, is where the edcucation starts, and is not where the edcuation finishes.
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Can the media educate people?
The media and the press are not in the business of "educating" anyone, unless of course one is to see the brainwashing of stupid people as a form of education. What they do is report on things and throw their opinions so hard into your face knowing that some people will believe anything they read. And as things stand Rupert Murdoch is brainwashing sheeple the world over.
Years ago (far too many) when I had just left school a wise older man said to me in the pub. "Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear", it took me far too long to understand what he meant.
In fact every source of information has been collated by a person or people, and like an arsehole they all have an opinion, which is always represented in the "facts" as they tell / teach you them.
Years ago (far too many) when I had just left school a wise older man said to me in the pub. "Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear", it took me far too long to understand what he meant.
In fact every source of information has been collated by a person or people, and like an arsehole they all have an opinion, which is always represented in the "facts" as they tell / teach you them.
Sex God
The media can educate people ....they choose not to
Sex God
What are we assuming is covered by the word 'media'? If it's just newspapers and news programmes the above comments are arguably true.
But what about the other factual productions? I am educated on a daily basis by the likes of Life on Earth, Hairy Bikers, Mythbusters - the list goes on and on.
What about the internet - is that a medium we are including? Again - education is there to be had.
However, it is up to US surely, what information we seek, how we deal with it and how much background checking we do to verify it's accuracy and relevance? We can't really blame the politicians for lying - that's what they do. Nor can we criticise the papaers etc for printing what they are told to print. Our responsibly lies with how WE behave and what WE do with the infomration we are presented with.
But what about the other factual productions? I am educated on a daily basis by the likes of Life on Earth, Hairy Bikers, Mythbusters - the list goes on and on.
What about the internet - is that a medium we are including? Again - education is there to be had.
However, it is up to US surely, what information we seek, how we deal with it and how much background checking we do to verify it's accuracy and relevance? We can't really blame the politicians for lying - that's what they do. Nor can we criticise the papaers etc for printing what they are told to print. Our responsibly lies with how WE behave and what WE do with the infomration we are presented with.
Sex God
Look at one source of information and get one persons view of a situation. look at several sources of information, consider it carefuly, and maybe you might get a little closer to the truth 
Sex God
my slight brush with the media taught me lots..about the media
A lot of the brainwashing and use of media to influence national opinion is down to Rupert Murdoch. Here is a wiki on what he is up to here in Great Britain. Read the link below and you will see a one man global entity, and nobody in their right mind can think this is a good thing.
Acquisitions in Britain
When the daily newspaper The Sun entered the market in 1969, Murdoch acquired it and turned it into a tabloid format; by 2006 it was selling three million copies per day.
Murdoch acquired The Times (and The Sunday Times), the paper Lord Northcliffe had once owned, in 1981. The distinction of owning The Times came to him through his careful cultivation of its owner, who had grown tired of losing money on it.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Murdoch's publications were generally supportive of the UK's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At the end of the Thatcher/Major era, Murdoch switched his support to the Labour Party and the party's leader Tony Blair. The closeness of his relationship with Blair and their secret meetings to discuss national policies was to become a political issue in Britain.
In 1986, Murdoch introduced electronic production processes to his newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States. The greater degree of automation led to significant reductions in the number of employees involved in the printing process. In England, the move roused the anger of the print unions, resulting in a long and often violent dispute that played out in Wapping, one of London's docklands areas, where Murdoch had installed the very latest electronic newspaper publishing facility in an old warehouse. The unions had been led to assume that Murdoch intended to launch a new London evening newspaper from those premises, but he had kept secret his intention to relocate all the News titles there. The bitter dispute at Fortress Wapping started with the dismissal of 6000 employees who had gone on strike and resulted in street battles, demonstrations and a great deal of bad publicity for Murdoch. Many suspected that the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher had colluded in the Wapping affair as a way of damaging the British trade union movement. Once the Wapping battle had ended, union opposition in Australia followed suit.
In response to print media's decline and the increasing influence of online journalism Murdoch proclaimed his support of the micropayments model for obtaining online revenue, although this has largely been criticised by thinkers on the subject .
News Corporation has subsidiaries in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands and the Virgin Islands. From 1986, News Corporation's annual tax bill averaged around seven per cent of its profits.
