Ignorance is strength....

But for w

ho?

I remember growing up in a world when having a thirst for knowledge was a good thing and the aspiration to fame was an afterthought, and I’m not that old, barely 30! Kids now have an abundance of information at their fingertips yet they are still blind to what is going on in the world around them. They are far too easily distracted by the most trivial issues

such as the royal baby or the enormous spending by their sports team. This is in large part due to the devastating decline in today’s media.

Just go back a few weeks and the mainstream media made a particular door extremely famous. For what seemed like an eternity, the press were camped outside the hospital waiting for a glimpse of the royal baby, it was pathetic! This should have been a 5 minute segment on the news at most but it went on and on and you couldn’t escape it, it was everywhere! Now tell me, how is it news when every “news network” is showing the same thing?

News reporters are trying to bring more of an entertainment aspect into the news in the hopes to boost the ratings, and in doing so they have cut the quality of the program substantially. And not only that but by letting standards slip they will actually lose some of their current viewers, but they don’t have to worry, there are plenty of superficial people to take their place! In the meantime the people who want a higher level of reporting have to doing some investigative journalism of their own to try and uncover a proper news channel!

And why are there so many people out there that are happy in their ignorance?? In one word: EDUCATION. There is less and less emphasis on education and more on entertainment. There used to be a time where you could have both in the same show! I know, it’s a radical thought but cartoons of my day used to teach kid about tolerance and accepting that people had strengths and weaknesses different to yours, there used to be less emphasis on selling merchandise and more time devoted on telling a good story.

By making sure you start to make shows more informative and entertaining for kids, will in turn lead to adults placing more on an emphases on the information rather than all the gimmicks the news channels try and distract you with. But like I said before it’s all about ratings, it’s a sad thing to think about how many people are actually taken in by this kind of “reporting”, but if you demand to know more, then you might get more. But of course certain people don’t want you to know more and will go as far as intimidating any journalist that actually does their job, like Glen Greenwalds of The Guardian.

The government didn’t like the fact that he was actually telling the people what was going on around them, so they held his partner for 9 hours at Heathrow airport under the Terrorism act. I didn’t realise that doing your job and providing people with real new was an act of terror?? The mere fact that “the powers that be” went as far as using intimidation tactics to try stop you from doing your job, just goes to show you how far back we have gone as a civilization. They would rather have use starting at a door for weeks than look at what’s really going on!

People should be able to discern between news and entertainment, but sadly as the education system is gutted there will be more and more people who can’t tell the difference, and that my friends, will lead to a large portion of the population believing everything on TV with no desire to question more.

Here’s hoping that there are more people like Glenn Greenwald in the world, willing to do their jobs with the upmost integrity.