People are Posting Examples of the Media Manipulating the Truth (Photos)
It’s been reported ironically, in the mainstream and out in the open in the past several years that people are believing in the bias and the authority of the mainstream media less and less. In the last few years, traditional news media has been having much more of a rough time, though it’s almost like someone is trying to make up for that by damaging the alternative media.
According to a survey cited in articles like this, more Americans hold a negative rather than positive view of the traditional news media, with 43 percent of those surveyed holding a negative view with 33% holding a more positive view.
People really don’t seem to know what is accurate, and that says a lot of things about where we’re at today. Here are some things people recently posted to demonstrate in a lighthearted manner how the media truly might distort a story.
A TAX PROTEST IN PARIS
CONSERVATIVE LEADER THERESA MAY LAUNCHING THE PARTY’S CAMPAIGN BUS IN THE TOWN OF NORTHUMBERLAND
HILLARY CLINTON RALLY IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA
A HILLARY CLINTON EVENT IN OHIO
US MARINES HELP IRAQI SOLDIER
PHOTO TAKEN WHEN PRINCE WILLIAM PRESENTED ROYAL BABY TO THE WORLD
One article notes “The problem is bias. While ideally the media should be objective and hold power to account, in reality we know that most news outlets are partisan and have their own agenda to advance. Whether state-owned or run by some shady tax-avoiding billionaire, getting ‘the masses’ to view the world from a certain perspective has always been a priceless power to wield.”
One could say stagnation has led to people seeing the routine, consistent tricks played by the powers that be wielding the media, for what they are. It’s been like a stagnant, constant period of time unfortunately since the beginning of events in the early 2000’s, when the media has been promoting nonstop “national defense.”
People know more about how the media is today, because it’s been the same, stagnant program for decades and decades now. It can be quantified with studies and statistics, or it can be understood in detail in one person’s own intuition and personal understanding.