Rasta_Hibs
25-10-2012, 01:37 PM
Recently I have been thinking that the general public are being made fools off by the messages and information that is broadcast through to them by the mainstream media.
I think I’ll probably add to this thread later with more thoughts but I’ll start it off and I was just looking for other opinions, people to pick holes in what I’m saying or not. Basically just to discuss life/society in general and how we may be effected by what we see through the media.
1) - The television - It occurred to me that a large section of the public gain their knowledge about pretty much everything in life from the broadcasts from the television. It’s such a wide topic but I’ll try to put my views across as clearly and well-constructed as I can.
Reality TV - Aimed at the most impressionable members of society 18-20's. Programs such as Towie, Brother, Towie, Made in Chelsea you get the kind of programs I mean. I think these programs do not promote a positive message but instead give a message of consumerism , hedonism, sleeping about, gossip, lacks any real substance of any kind. To cut it down I think these programs can lead to young people to lower the expectations they have in life. They promote a drunken life style also where being dumb acting dumb is classed as being cool and essentially going to get you places, such as the cast of the show. In real life this drunken, foolish existence brings nothing but trouble and young people will never reach full potential in life using these ‘Celebs’ as role Models.
The News – More and more I find that the news on the mainstream is only telling us part of a story, either lying to its audience or not investigating real issues/ stories. Examples of this range from the most recent one of Jimmy Saville. The cover up and over 20 years in show business not one investigation into the abuse. But what is the message the general public get from the media? It is Jimmy is a good eccentric guy, charity worker, Sir Jimmy and the rest. You know they built him up at the time when he was abusing people. It’s pretty obvious that the BBC / Mainstream media knew this was going on but done nothing except promote a false image of JS that helped him carry on with his abuse.
Climate change – Now that studies have shown that climate change or the earth temperature has not risen for 16 years. The evidence for this was there all along. What was the general message from the Media? Its man-made, earth is heating up etc. etc. Next thing we know we have more carbon taxes, rules and regulations, government bodies costing millions telling us all about man made climate change when in fact for the last 16 years this has been false.
Iraq – All the main stream media promoted the weapons of mass destruction being the reason along with 9/11 for the war in Iraq when clearly this was not the real reason behind it. This message being used to get the general public to back this war and no oppose it.
Muslims – The general message is a negative one on the telly, you can tell by the way some people talk that they have negative opinions about the Muslim religion. Where do they get these? Mostly from the telly. Same applies to black people and the negative stereo types promoted on the television.
Banks – The banks that were caught rigging the Libor rates that effect millions of peoples finances but this is not a story until the truth had to come out. Not to mention the fact that the banks are behaving terribly but where is the news story’s really focusing on the frauds that these companies commit.
Obama was given the Nobile peace prize whilst at war in two countries. The EU is then given it when it’s the cause of violence over Europe. Just manipulation of people to back an agenda.
This applies to most main stream media.
I know I have kind of skimmed across this but I wanted to get the post out and see what people think of the general idea of what I am saying?
I think I’ll probably add to this thread later with more thoughts but I’ll start it off and I was just looking for other opinions, people to pick holes in what I’m saying or not. Basically just to discuss life/society in general and how we may be effected by what we see through the media.
1) - The television - It occurred to me that a large section of the public gain their knowledge about pretty much everything in life from the broadcasts from the television. It’s such a wide topic but I’ll try to put my views across as clearly and well-constructed as I can.
Reality TV - Aimed at the most impressionable members of society 18-20's. Programs such as Towie, Brother, Towie, Made in Chelsea you get the kind of programs I mean. I think these programs do not promote a positive message but instead give a message of consumerism , hedonism, sleeping about, gossip, lacks any real substance of any kind. To cut it down I think these programs can lead to young people to lower the expectations they have in life. They promote a drunken life style also where being dumb acting dumb is classed as being cool and essentially going to get you places, such as the cast of the show. In real life this drunken, foolish existence brings nothing but trouble and young people will never reach full potential in life using these ‘Celebs’ as role Models.
The News – More and more I find that the news on the mainstream is only telling us part of a story, either lying to its audience or not investigating real issues/ stories. Examples of this range from the most recent one of Jimmy Saville. The cover up and over 20 years in show business not one investigation into the abuse. But what is the message the general public get from the media? It is Jimmy is a good eccentric guy, charity worker, Sir Jimmy and the rest. You know they built him up at the time when he was abusing people. It’s pretty obvious that the BBC / Mainstream media knew this was going on but done nothing except promote a false image of JS that helped him carry on with his abuse.
Climate change – Now that studies have shown that climate change or the earth temperature has not risen for 16 years. The evidence for this was there all along. What was the general message from the Media? Its man-made, earth is heating up etc. etc. Next thing we know we have more carbon taxes, rules and regulations, government bodies costing millions telling us all about man made climate change when in fact for the last 16 years this has been false.
Iraq – All the main stream media promoted the weapons of mass destruction being the reason along with 9/11 for the war in Iraq when clearly this was not the real reason behind it. This message being used to get the general public to back this war and no oppose it.
Muslims – The general message is a negative one on the telly, you can tell by the way some people talk that they have negative opinions about the Muslim religion. Where do they get these? Mostly from the telly. Same applies to black people and the negative stereo types promoted on the television.
Banks – The banks that were caught rigging the Libor rates that effect millions of peoples finances but this is not a story until the truth had to come out. Not to mention the fact that the banks are behaving terribly but where is the news story’s really focusing on the frauds that these companies commit.
Obama was given the Nobile peace prize whilst at war in two countries. The EU is then given it when it’s the cause of violence over Europe. Just manipulation of people to back an agenda.
This applies to most main stream media.
I know I have kind of skimmed across this but I wanted to get the post out and see what people think of the general idea of what I am saying?