Power of the media

Submitted by sense.com (South Africa), Jun 9, 2011 at 14:39

What people don't realise is that the media carry just as much power as top ranking politicians. They manipulate language all the time to tell you about how cats bark and people believe it because they're not thinking about the words being used.

So like the Islamists, the media have made up millions and millions of lies using language and words manipulatively because they want to believe their own lies, and then once millions of people believe their lies then it makes it easier for them to believe them too.

It's a curse. Most journalists and editors of main-stream newspapers and especially big T.V news channels are a curse to humanity.

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