Media: Truth or Lies?

Imagine a world where our knowledge of the world’s problems and issues are controlled by one body. Where we only know only what this body lets us see. What if they abused this power, withheld truth and manipulated to sway public opinion. Well that world is the world we live in now, and the body I am talking about is the media.

The media is our only window to the world we have. Therefore you would think it is there responsibility to deliver us all the major stories relevant to every person in the country. But this is not the case. The newspapers and news programs are constantly filled with distractions. Stories that have very little meaning to the average citizen but are presented as the most important pressing issues of the time. A prime example is last year’s coverage of the Qantas strike. The time taken to present this story was almost a minute less than the story covering troops returning from East Timor. What is the reason for this? Why worry about these pressing issues why ...