News Media V

The major media is no place to get information on world events and what is behind them. We are left with two choices, the internet and short-wave radio. From these two you can get not only the truth, but every opinion from the far left to the far right. While figuring out which is truth and which is propaganda can be a little difficult, I feel that a person who is willing to take the time and think for themselves can figure it out. There are a few magazines, weekly newspapers and newsletters that are excellent sources of information. If you look hard you will find them. Most are listed on the internet as links to your favorite sites. Moving on the the field of entertainment we find things even worse. Sports, which are now only entertainment, are not much better. Movies and television shows depicting and glamourizing the most outrageous acts and behavior abound. We need to remember that most movies and television shows are made to appeal to children from thirteen to seventeen. These are the very formative years. Language, sex and violence that would not even have been allowed in movies fifty years ago are now common, even in PG and G rated movies. Many of these acts and language are now on your television set, brought right into your living room. If you have cable or sattellite, you can get all of it, uncut. Those with regular over the air TV will have to wait a little longer. Each year the industry pushes the envelope a little more as to what words and what acts can be shown on over the air TV. Why has this happened? The higher ups in Hollywood will tell you that it is our changing attitudes and wants. That is a lot of poppycock. The industry itself has caused most of these changes. By putting just a little more of the forbidden into the shows at a time, they have gotten most people to accept what they want to show. Then, by making a show that really shocks, they make us think that what we have been seeing is tame. A few of these and they move on to the next level. Remember, these shows are geared to the young impressionable minds, so what they are doing works. While they say that the arts (if you call today's movies and TV shows art) imitate life, I think that life also imitates art. Back when the Soviet Union was going strong, one of the ways that communists said that they could get control of the Americans was to undermine their moral code. While the Soviet Union is now defunct, communisim is not. The fasciunists in hollywood are doing their best to undermine those morals every day. It is still with the idea of a one world dictatorship that this is taking place.