On 10 May 2021, The Godfather said the following...

the media telling the truth? Can we really trust being what we're hearing? It's a lesson to be learned that we can't believe everythin we're being told or what we read.

Great advice. The media requires constant "hot topics" that anger,
shock, motivate, create emotion, so they don't lose viewers, and have 24 hours of coverage to fill daily. I recall a time when the news was so

The media cause us to have a good day or a bad day sometimes. It feeds into your thoughts in a margin that could be damaging. We're always being fed what we should listen to, what we should watch, all day long people talk about what they've seen on media, to become popular, wealth, find a a mate or anything. Our media should be the Bible. God tells us the Truth. Media tells you what you want to hear.

boring that a news channel had helicopters over an ocean, waiting for a piece of an asian plane to pop up out of the water. With each debris
that floated, the anchors would announce "Breaking News," followed by discouraged looks within their facial expressions to find out it was
just trash -- So they started talking about how much trash was in the ocean. This lasted about two weeks, and to me was the tipping point for the media -- they needed to CREATE news -- enter Ferguson. It was an opportunity to poor gas on a small fire, and the media has not been the same sense. Facts don't matter to them -- ratings do -- sin does -- division and anger, mass shootings, riots, protests, all lead to -- more news. I'd like to think that if less time was spent on social media and/or watching the news would open manys eyes to the beautiful world
that God has provided to us. Wonderful things happen daily, and simplicities such as the smell of a lilac bush that only occurs once per year -- and only if it doesn't frost as they bloom -- can be truly admired. An elderly person having trouble grabbing an item from the bottom shelf of a grocery store, is noticed when ones face is not
burried on our phones, and we help them. Life in God's world is much
more rewarding and beautiful then the life Governments and Media project u

It's a shame that it's like this and it's only going to get worse. When we as a people start shutting off our TV, smartphone, iPhone, tablet or anything like that, then we can do like it was safe back in the day and just open up a real book and read. That's what's wrong, it's too easy to be misled and there are so many people looking for ways to take advantage of people to the point they spend a lot of time figuring out a new way to do that through Media.

-cr1mson

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