Mexico: The elusive truth about safety
What a breath of fresh air!
While pondering on this, I realized the media instead of informing and presenting facts, just follows hidden (and not so hidden) agendas that have to do little with reality. I was asking myself (and others) when did this happen? When did the media became some 'institution' that serves purposes other than what it was intended to do? Aren't newspapers, reporters, news shows, supposed to relate the facts?
Just look at the economic crisis in the US. Some TV shows reported that it was going to be the worst depression ever and that people should be ready for all sort of catastrophes. A favorite on the topic is this:
Glenn's Beck War Room
A few things come to mind.
1. Facts can be put in a certain order to manipulate the message.
2. Some media 'outlets' do serve certain agendas. If you dig a bit further and not believe everything you hear or read, it is easy to spot them. Just get a few different newspapers (if possible from around the world) and watch different news shows commenting on the same topic and you'll get a more realistic picture.
3. However don't stay with that... sometimes (if possible) talk to people (like in the case of Mexico's violence situation) and get their sense of what is really happening on the ground.
The internet has great resources that present testimonies from actual pictures.
4. Ask yourself questions about what you read (including this blog).
5. If all else fails, turn everything off and down, breath deeply or go and have a bath... :) After all the world will keep going with its craziness and stressing yourself about it won't make it any better.
photo courtesy of wikimedia.org
A note: when I talk about media here I refer to news media, as it is quite obvious that the media in general does have an agenda.
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