That thing called Media

Call me paranoid, but I really don’t know how much of what I read to trust these days.

For one, there was this game ‘Chinese whispers’ that I played as a kid. You whisper a sentence into the next person’s ears and see what becomes of it when it reaches the last person. No doubt, a very amusing way to pass time when I was a kid, but I often wonder if the same thing happens with news.

But anyway, if we assume that these guys have gotten their facts right, the media, something that was supposed to be just a tool for communication, has become way too powerful for that. It has the power to decide what we know and what we don’t. It has the power to decide how we feel about a particular issue. And it also often has the power to decide whether we feel anything at all about that issue or not.

This just makes me wonder whether the media has indeed become a powerful manipulator and I am but a stupid idiot (I know one of the words is redundant, but that’s how stupid I feel) who is walking into a carefully set trap.