If you take a break from the mainstream news even for a few days - and then return it is quite a shock how controlled, manipulated and censored it is.
There is an addicted element about it, we are deceived into thinking that we are staying in touch with what is happening. Even to the point where we log in 10 times a day. Each news channel has its own agenda and there is an intense craving for sensational news.
The Media also tries to act as a judge, jury and executioner - as though due to their power they have the moral authority to decide if someone is innocent.
Jon Venables is splodged across the papers these past few days - everywhere - and people with serious deep voices tell us how evil he is over the radio.
Meantime life goes on all around you.
The tinternet gives you greater autonomy to decide where you get your news from how and when. People on YouTube even making their own news channels. Unbiased, unfunded, no agenda commentators writing their own blogs.
If you have the imagination and creativity you can even write commentaries to the news.
Most reporting is assumption, opinion and speculation.
You know this is true if you have ever been on the receiving end of the media - they create a story with partial evidence and then hype, twist and spin it.
Or go out into the big wide world and find the news - if you want to stay in touch - so much...
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