The Media.

So the assignment is to write about a recent world event, but I decided to mix the words around a bit, and write about the publicising of those world events.

We are bought up in this world to be scared, everywhere we go they're telling us to be scared. The television, the radio, the books, the newspaper, everywhere.
Quite frankly, I'm over it, I'd like to make up my own mind, and opinion on these world, events not someone instilling onto me that they are life, or world threatening.

For once I would like to turn my television on at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and be greeted with a joyful message:

• 'Scientists say the World is ALL GOOD'
• 'Death penalty for animal cruelty'
• World's most horrific criminals hold hands and sing together'
• 'Japanese banned from ever travelling by water'
• 'Chinese banned from reproducing'
• 'Ingela announced World Leader'

Now wouldn't this be a nice thing to turn on the television and hear. Instead we are bombarded with:

• 'The world will end in 50 years'
• 'Person mutilates dog: gets 5 years'
• '80 whales killed just this week for Japanese 'research'
• 'George Bush: 'World Leader'

Take celebrities for instance, the amount of times I have seen the words "Pregnant!" slandered across a magazine cover when someone usually emaciated looks healthy. Yet people believe these stories, people believe a writer whos only proof is 'sources say'

Through providing news and current affairs, they literally control us, they dictate how and what we think. I'm sick of people being the sheep, mindlessly following whoever seems to posess the authority. It's time for everyone to stand up, decide what their decision is, and then voice it.

It's time for us to be our own people, as excellent as the media is, it is not always right, and we need to understand this.