“A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” James Madison couldn’t have said it better. What I take from that is that without censoring the things that get censored the government might not be as powerful as it is or even exist. Unfortunately, I think that is very close to the truth. There isn’t a government I’ve heard of that tells their people everything. The corruption in this world is too high for us to even be able to handle if we knew about it, and the really sad part is tha

So after learning all of this I’ve decided I need to be the president when I’m 40. Count on it. I don’t know what things will be like in 22 years, but the things our government does are ridiculous in some cases. They literally hold back information that causes people to die. The only way for our nation to change is we need someone to liberate us, from the corrupt and almost evil ways we live by. Although, unfortunately it would take more than just the USA to be liberated for things to really change. For the next 22 years I don’t know what to tell you, you’re going to have to do a lot of thinking about the credibility of everything you hear, and try to stay away from such exciting news stories like what celebrities are pregnant this month, or why P. Diddy is in jail again for shooting up a club. Maybe if enough people start to learn and stray from that sort of thing maybe it will go away. As far as the situation as a whole goes, the best conclusion I can give is that we’ll see.

As of January 2002 the top ten media companies are AOL-Time Warner, Disney, GE, News Corporation, Viacom, Vivendi, Sony, Bertelsmann, AT&T, and Liberty Media. You might think that there isn’t really a big deal with a few companies becoming as big as they are because that’s how business works, but when these companies are the ones that also are giving us our information it’s obviously they’re going to do it in a manner best suiting themselves, why do you think they got so big in the first place.

1. Decontextualizing Violence: focusing on the irrational without looking at the reasons for unresolved conflicts and polarization.

8. Failure to explore the causes of escalation and impact of media coverage itself.

All is fair in love and war right? In war, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” can often both be guilty of misleading their people with subjectivity, exaggerations, distortions, inaccuracy, and fabrications in order to receive support and legitimacy. It’s a proven fact that propaganda works, in many cases it’s been able to rally many people to support a cause at the cost of exaggerating and/or lying about the issues. Usually the government (or whoever is trying to gain support) will try to make the ‘benefits’ of their actions appeal to as many people as possible whether or not it’s the truth and then support it with rhetoric about the righteousness of themselves.

There is no greater influence than political influence. Even some mainstream journalists are starting to speak out about the problems they face. Henry Holcomb, who is president of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia and a journalist for 40 years, said that newspapers had a ‘clearer vision’ back when he began reporting. That mission was to “report the truth and raise hell.” “Corporate pressure has this vision blurred,” he added. The group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a news media watchdog group, told the American Free Press that 60 percent of journalists surveyed recently admitted that advertisers actually try to change stories. Some will kill stories while promoting others because of the sole interest of the power holders.

Solving this problem is one of the greatest we have to conquer, and one that isn’t very high up on the list. Honestly I don’t think we’ll ever do it. There is no way that media will ever be out of the control of whoever holds the power. I would have to say my only solution to the problem is to overthrow the ones with the power,

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