Self Initiated Post: The Media

Today, i want to talk about the media and its effects on the society.

Actually, the media plays a very big role in our lives, providing us with lots of information surrounds us sometimes without us even realising it. It has seemingly been weaved into our lives, and to most people has become something so normal and harmless. However, the media does have a dark side to it. It makes you think the way they want you to think. In fact, the media can very easily be manipulated by certain people to make people believe something, or think in a way that is beneficial for those certain people.

One example would be in China, where the spread of information is tightly monitored and controlled by the government. Any news that will give people a bad impression of the government will certainly not be published by the papers no matter how serious. Also, in China, google search results has been filtered so as to prevent people to search on the more sensitive topics in China. Yet, the people of China are not very bothered by this and just continues to accept the flow of information, which is in a way spreading propaganda.

This also happens in other countries as well, although maybe less severe.

Thus, i hope that after reading this article, you would not blindly believe everything you you read, but instead be able to think with an open mind and always question yourself, eg. who wrote this article, what is it trying to tell me, etc.