Manufactured Narratives
“Knowledge makes man unfit to be a slave”- Frederick Douglass We live in a country considered the most powerful country on earth, yet why is it so difficult to get any actual information, especially from outside our border? Not to mention what’s going on inside this country. Could it be because the news we rely on to learn about what’s happening in our world is basically in the hands of commercial enterprise? Giant media corporations such as Time Warner, News Corps, Disney and so forth are the ones who get to decide what is news, what is newsworthy, and what is not newsworthy. What the press is actually pushing is distortions, lies, and lack of balance. In America, the public tends to know more about sex scandals and Hollywood celebrities than they know about economics, the environment, history and world events. This is by design. A design to control your imagination and your ideas, regardless of what side you fall on or your overa...