Don’t get Media Managed

By Dan Barber

Priming the audience for a Ms. President

"...Like a mirror doing double duty as a fire starter, television tends to both reflect and catalyze social change..." This quote from the article is a warning to people. When I turn on the television I like to watch "non-fiction news" and then change the channel to something that will help me escape the realities of what I saw in that news, I don't want to be "socially engineered."

It is becoming difficult for me to find anything on TV worth watching. When a newscaster reports on the story of a burglar breaking into a home, but instead of stealing "anything of value," he heats up a snack and then takes a nap on a sofa. On the surface, people might find this funny that this guy didn't steal the homeowners "valuables," but I think that maybe this burglar views warm food and a soft place to take a nap as "very valuable" especially if the burglar is homeless... I don't view this as odd or funny but as a reflection of our reality today.

For years, many of our young people have been getting their world view from late-night "fake news" reports, played for laughs. If those young people actually believe that fake news, as true, can be dangerous because neurologists know that young people's brains are not yet fully developed until they reach their mid-twenties. In my conspiracy way of thinking, what better way for a political ideology to capture a demographic (young college aged people). Have you ever wondered why our colleges and universities are so liberal?

When you turn on the TV, are you being informed, entertained, or socially engineered?

GOP's latest Benghazi-related inquiry could benefit Hillary Clinton

Hopefully, the GOP inquiry will also help the families of the murdered Americans learn what really happened in Benghazi (Hint, it wasn't caused by the video).

This article should be used in journalism classes as a case study in how to slant (spin) a point of view by using assumptions supported by "select" quotes from individuals. The Los Angeles Times and Evan Halper are doing a bang up job in supporting their Presidential candidate.