In January 1928, they invented the first mechanical television powered by rapidly spinning wheels, aired the first TV drama “The Queen's messenger”. This was the beginning of a new era, and a new concept called media that informed and pleasured families over the years. However, does media have another side?
Imagine yourself forced to eat the same dish you hate everyday on every meal, as time passes by you’ll feel ok with it you might even start loving it. Does this ring any bell?
The same thing happens to you every day by consuming all these news and opinions released by social media TV magazines newspapers… you’ll slowly tolerate certain thoughts and opinions. yet, do not get me wrong what I’m discussing here is not whether we accept others’ perspectives and differences or not, what I’m saying is that the majority of media rulers manipulate the information released in order to brainwash the consumers or even normalize certain concepts that are morally proven wrong.
Moreover, changing the truth is very simple, all you need is a good photographer and a strong motivation, and here are some examples:
Although, manipulating the truth through photographers became an old-fashioned technique especially with the evolution of technologies that’s why “they” decided to upgrade it into spying. In fact, even your personal information on social media are not safe anymore, they use it to promote products for their clients by knowing your preferences and diffusing the right adds at the right times (quite familiar ha) . Actually, “Mark Zuckerberg faced allegations that he developed a “malicious and fraudulent scheme” to exploit vast amounts of private data to earn Facebook billions and force rivals out of business.”
Things are getting worse since “The average US adult spends 38 minutes per day on Facebook. 16-24-year-olds spend a median of 3 hours a day on social media. Internet users spent an average of 2 hours and 22 minutes per day on social networking in 2019.”
Therefore, what we should be aware of is that the new generations are like blank papers, which makes them an easy prey to every manipulator. In fact, opinion creators are betting on them by seducing them with advanced technologies and filling their heads with their own principles in order to make them their superficial screen slaves who believe everything they say.
That brings me the memory of a video I watched of American parents saying that homosexual adds are only diffused when their 4 years old daughter is playing the video game , they doubt that the game has a face recognition system and they’re targeting only children.(scary ha )
Based on these facts, I believe that media established a ramified system that serves capitalists, in other words as long as money holders pay enough, media rulers/actors will not hesitate to present the contents they want.
The living proof is the abundance of “lifestyle influencers” who keep bombarding you with every detail of their lives, how they eat, speak, study, think, poop, just to make you think shit of yourself ( I’m not enough, not worthy , not pretty, not smart….) . You keep thriving for perfection until at some point, you find yourself stuck with a bunch of stereotypes that made you lose your self-esteem, respect, and the reason of your existence.
For that, you should always remember that you have the right to live by your own pace with your own thoughts and believes. God created you to be yourself not the image of someone else!
To sum up, media is just the instrument and listeners are the purpose. Therefore, critical mind is the answer, looking at the situation from outside is not enough digging deeper will unmask the scheme.
Stay tuned for the next article …!
writing: Mariem zayen
editing: zaineb lamine
Resources
Media manipulating the truth:
mark Zuckerberg accusation:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/19-year-old-mark-zuckerberg-on-privacy-issues-versus-today.html#:~:text=After%20Harvard's%20computer%20services%20department,and%20violating%20copyrights%20with%20Facemash.
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