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Problems We Don’t Know About
Your perception of reality is shaped by the media. Much of what we ‘know’ are fed by the media. The media describes everything from the bacterial dangers lurking in your tap water to impending threats confronting our nation. Many of us acknowledge these issues, never having performed a single test on tap water samples nor having held a position in the national defense department. The media is a tremendously powerful tool to help us understand the workings of the world, by highlighting issues typically imperceptible to the average citizen. However, there is a world of difference between having the media substantiate our perceptions of reality and limiting your perception through the media’s scope.
One must realize the media presents only a mere fraction of what is really happening.
Every so often, we read in news reports the busting of drug, prostitution, and illegal immigrant rings. It is only at that point that these rings come into existence in the realm of the audience’s reality, after the span of years they were actually operating. These types of reports never fail to surprise me, particularly if these rings exist in an otherwise quiet town (which they often do). It gives me a sense of wakefulness to reality of the activities that can occur, in your very own backyard (so to say), amidst your oblivion and without media scrutiny.
US President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12958, which led to the declassifying of millions of pages of past US security documents. These documents highlights why the media is only a pinhole of what is happening in the world. Reading these documents, you may be surprised of the many covert operations executed that people of that time knew nothing about. Similarly, one could (and should) expect that declassified documents of the future will detail numerous operations that are undergoing right now, that we have never clued in and will never find on the media.
This is not a comment on the legality or ethics of the system, or the effectiveness of the media, but a simple statement of what the media is: a scope on selective events. As essential as the media is in understanding the world, assuming its narrow scope can present to you everything important in the world is unrealistic. Understand there are proceedings outside of media’s limelight, and accept that there are problems we don’t know about and not discussed. Complement the information from the powerful media with experience and judgment, and seek truth and knowledge. Perceive reality with your senses and morale, and not through the pinhole filter, that is the media.
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