Media Revelation #1.) Hyper-reality
Media has created this hyper reality altering our image of reality. Most people don’t understand that media is just a tool of distraction and that it is designed to entertain us. Amusing Ourselves To Death on page 76 talks about how thing are not really as they appear. What we see is just a snapshot, which is often misleading when taken out of context. On page 87 the book talks about how television is turning media into pure entertainment. Even the news is structured to entertaining when it’s often presenting every serious context. The issues covered don’t get the airtime and the attention they deserve to be properly interpreted by the public. Therefore, one cannot simply believe everything that the media tells us. One must learn to critically question the media in search of the truth.
Media Revelation #2.) Censorship
Media has no obligation or inspiration to tell the truth. Many stories are censored or put out of context so that we don’t think too much about them. Once someone realizes that a few corporate conglomerates control the media they can understand why these stories are censored. These conglomerates will not let stories that will hurt their business get out to the public. Censored directly addresses many of these stories that never made it on the air. One of the more shocking stories in the book that I figured would get a lot of air time is the United States selling toxic products to the public. I never heard this story before reading the chapter in the book. Selling cloned meat to the public is another one of those stories that didn’t receive enough airtime to raise awareness of the issue. Yet both these things are happening as we speak, yet the news is not addressing them as serious issues as they really are.
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