Media is everywhere we look and it effects every aspect of our lives. Over the past few years with the help of ever advancing technology, media has become a staple in our everyday activities. Listening to the radio, watching tv, checking social media, all common activities that the average individual does every day.
With such a large reach it seems almost impossible to escape it without literally living out in the woods cut off from society, bear grylls style. Obviously I'm not going to do that, so the only way I can really live with it is by simply dealing with it.
I can't watch the news anymore without nitpicking everything they do wrong. From presenting the information in a clearly biased way, to just plain getting it wrong [sometimes on purpose]. The news and other public broadcasters of current events have lost my attention. It seems like everywhere I look someone is trying to push their own agenda down my throat instead of just telling me whats going on unbiased.
So I try my best to find multiple accounts of an event that all add up before I accept it or make my own decision and move on.
Unfortunately that's not the case with everyone, and I'm seeing that more and more.
In my own personal sphere I often catch my mother spouting off about topics in which she is very ill-informed and quoting the exact things that were just said on the news as if that was the whole and definite truth.
TL;DR take everything with a grain of salt and research for yourself.
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