He who controls the information you receive, controls your mind and furthermore, you. Because as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, leader of the Nazi Party’s propaganda unit had said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” And he also had said: “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” So you should really take in consideration the sources from where your information come from. Because behind the vast majority of today’s media, there are different interests, we usually even don’t know of. So it’s very hard to find a media source, independent in its financing, that would serve us with news as objective as possible. But I believe I found one; it’s called The Real News. Backed up with only the users donations, it tries to present all the perspectives of events possible, not just the ones your government or your merchants would like you to see. But as I said, they run on users donations, so they need every help they can get, especially in current times of financial and economical crisis.
And even if you don’t like the news source described above (unfortunately they are mostly concentrating their coverage on North America, but there are plans to go worldwide as soon as possible), do yourself a favour and watch and listen to news more critically. Try to see the big picture about a news provided and try to detect the interests of it’s provider if there are any. For example, you will never see a coverage on some damaging effects of some medicine on commercial TV where its provider spends lots of money on advertising. So always try to also have an alternative sources for your news, to see as many perspectives as it is possible. And remember: The Internet is your best ally with this… Because it is much harder to be controlled as classical media like TV and newspapers.
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