Forum Post: Main Stream Media Loosing their Credibility.
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 6, 2011, 9:50 p.m. EST by dewitback
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With the emergence of the internet and sharing information and insider information online have we begun to unravel the controlled form of reporting distorted information. It is not only seen in the way that the general strike of oakland was misrepresented ,or how we've heard that the police force asked google to cover their tracks on police brutality, but in the general public's view of the world and of their environment.
Deforestation and Orangutan murders by NESTLE. Sweat shops from ADDIDAS. Plastic water bottle manufacturing and pollution by COKE-DESANI and PEPSI-AQUAFINA and NESTLE. Feel free to add more.
War photos are Taken and manipulated by the media to glorify war. How many photos have we seen of the truly gruesome and ghastly images of actual warfare consequence? We only see smoke, fires, tliban... I am in university and it is fact that photography not only lies, but in these days can be manipulated, and IS manipulated to make us see a certain way.
Does everyone know that America is 37th in Healthcare? France is first.
What is the percentage of media control (ownership) over which democracy is a joke? 51%? 75? 90%? How many Americans know who owns what percentage of the media in the US? If you own 99% of the media, there is still 1 % free media, and therefore there is still free press and democracy. This is what the US rich discovered long ago.
You all are lost. Step into the light.