Thursday 10 September 2015

Media misrepresentation

The mainstream news media is so often guilty of this and it can lead to disastrous results. But this " fudging" of the facts stars from the top... The politicians. They put forward the agenda for the day and the press are tools to push it onto us, but this was not always the case, you had some journalist that did their own fact checking and asked their own question, they have sadly been pushed out, imprisoned or even killed!

It is so important for a society to have a press with some " scruples" because the public especially an uneducated public can be easily turned into an angry mob and attack the most vulnerable people.

This can be seen by the so- called "Migrant crisis". The word migrant is rather misleading as it implies that they are choosing to come here, it should be called a " Humanitarian crisis" because these people are fleeing from war zones in the hope that they may reach a place where they can have a more humane way of life. The media has framed the issue this way so that it instills fear and suspicion into your mindset instead of compassion.

For the moment many of the newspapers and mainstream news are showing the desperation and the hardships that these people are going through, but just listen to some of the wording used like " flood" and " swarm", they do what they can to try and dehumanise the issue. Just try to think back ( I know it's hard) the first thing the PM wanted to do was to build a fence and send more military to stop then coming to Britain and remind the public of how much it is costing you! But people don't realise is, that even when they do make it, it's not as if they're being put in 5* hotels, they are put into camps that look more and more like prisons.

And even know, despite the huge public outcry, he is just going to take 15k when a small country like Lebanon has taken 1 million. And the real reason why he is taking more refugees is because Germany has welcomed them with open arms. But the media is still beating the drum and saying how this is not sustainable..what..is showing kindness going to run out?

The media has a point about one thing, until we solve the real problem, this is just a tempory band- aid... And what do you think is the real problem?????

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