"Deception is just as telling an outright lie"
An old Arabic quotes states: " If you want to take over a country, take over the people's thoughts." and the best way to do that is through the manipulation of media. The deception and manipulation of people's minds is a dangerous and unethical weapon.
The media and the news coverage that we invite to our living rooms each day are all possessed or in some cases influenced by wealthy and powerful people, let's not forget that these people, just like everyone on Earth, are human and therefore have opinions and desires too. They would do anything to protect their businesses or manipulate stories to gain support from the people whom they sell their products to.
Lying in order to sway public opinion to favor a certain side through the deception of certain things whether it be for the most important national security reasons is unethical and delinquent. Most of us don't have access to firsthand information like news agencies do therefore portraying one side of the story for the purpose of persuasion or dissuasion is extremely immoral.
We live in a world today where we strive to achieve equity and justice; however with the constant exploitation and deception of stories through news coverage by governments and organisations to gain public support, we are always going to have different groundless opinions based on these beliefs and desires of these organisations in which we will constantly fight battles against one another due to certain ideologies implanted into our minds that negatively alter our view of certain societies and cultures.
The worst out of all, is deception of media to gain support for an invasion of another country. Millions of lives are at stake and just the single thought that the majority of the world would not know the real "truth" due to such manipulation is disheartening, and to add insult to injury with the growing number of news agencies and organisations and different opinions they bring along with it, finding the truth to a certain event is now close to impossible
An old Arabic quotes states: " If you want to take over a country, take over the people's thoughts." and the best way to do that is through the manipulation of media. The deception and manipulation of people's minds is a dangerous and unethical weapon.
The media and the news coverage that we invite to our living rooms each day are all possessed or in some cases influenced by wealthy and powerful people, let's not forget that these people, just like everyone on Earth, are human and therefore have opinions and desires too. They would do anything to protect their businesses or manipulate stories to gain support from the people whom they sell their products to.
Lying in order to sway public opinion to favor a certain side through the deception of certain things whether it be for the most important national security reasons is unethical and delinquent. Most of us don't have access to firsthand information like news agencies do therefore portraying one side of the story for the purpose of persuasion or dissuasion is extremely immoral.
We live in a world today where we strive to achieve equity and justice; however with the constant exploitation and deception of stories through news coverage by governments and organisations to gain public support, we are always going to have different groundless opinions based on these beliefs and desires of these organisations in which we will constantly fight battles against one another due to certain ideologies implanted into our minds that negatively alter our view of certain societies and cultures.
The worst out of all, is deception of media to gain support for an invasion of another country. Millions of lives are at stake and just the single thought that the majority of the world would not know the real "truth" due to such manipulation is disheartening, and to add insult to injury with the growing number of news agencies and organisations and different opinions they bring along with it, finding the truth to a certain event is now close to impossible
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