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My mum tells me that when I was young, really young, around 3 years old, I would prefer to sit in front of the TV watching the news than watching cartoons. While growing up, I kept on doing it, getting to the point of watching 2 or more news reports on a row.

As soon as i got to my “adult” years (I did told you in another post that I don’t wanna be a grown up),I changed, l went from a news addict to watching all the TV series available.

But I did kept on getting informed especially online, I kind of left the mainstream news and started to search for the information everywhere, I still keep some more mainstream channels on my daily news search, but normally when I see something that keeps my interest I just start to navigate along the web, and that’s probably the reason why I also sometimes say that I’m a sort of encyclopedia of useless things.

 

Nowadays with all the information that we’re able to access we don’t have any excuse to not know what’s happening around the world, unless we want to be happy, because every time that I’m wandering in those news sites, I just keep on seeing how bad we humans are.

(In other news there are also a couple of news that keep me with some hope for us)

Kingdom of Misinformation

So this happenend some months ago…

I was watching the news when I saw that a big accident had happened on my hometown. It actually needed to be something big to appear on the news, as my hometown is rather small and uneventful.

So, a car had crashed into a house. No one was hurt, but the house and the garden were destroyed. They interviewed an old lady that was crying hysterically that she had lost everything and she had no one to help her. All her hard work was lost and she didn’t have her health anymore to start over. I was very touched by the woman, that wouldn’t stop crying, so I phoned my mother to see if she had heard anything about this and if she knew the woman.

It turns out that my mother was actually on that spot when the accident had happened. She said that the firefighters had to help the owner of the house, because she was in shock and didn’t speak a word. I found this strange because I had seen the interview and, even though she was hysteric, she was speaking, rather loudly actually. My mother then informed me that the person that the news channel had interviewed was not the owner of the house, and she didn’t even live nearby. She was walking on the area, as my mother was, and the interviewer asked if she wanted to give her thoughts about what happened. And so she did…..

Moral of the story: Never trust the news. They show you what gives them more audience or what is necessary to influence you to think a certain way. It’s a strong power that they have. They can show pictures, tell a story and voilà, the minds of who are watching are set to think that way, because, hey, If we’ve seen it on TV it must be true, right?

Watch several channels, search for news online, learn as much as you can about what you are reading and then form you own opinion.