Generally speaking, the news tells us information based on what they think we should know. Oddly enough, we can put on the news and hear about the Kardashians for 2 hours, but hear about the explosion in New York City for 5 minutes. What is really important in this situation: Khloe’s new DWI or the safety of an entire city and possibly the whole country? The media is filtering important content to feed Americans irrelevant garbage that has no real impact on our lives. Why can’t we have what we want to see? Why must we be force fed Big Macs when we want fruits and vegetables?
We trust the news to bring us the facts about the world no matter how chaotic. Media censorship has gone way too far and is turning a once reliable outlet into a joke. As news consumers, we need to hear about the new terrorist group, we need to hear about the mass school shootings because these things matter for our safety. Unless the key to survival is what Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are fighting about, we are doomed for extinction if the media’s priorities don’t change.
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