In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.
Criss JamiTags: age world mind technology storm media news internet information confusion eye information-overload overload issue mind-control junkies too-much mobile access mind-pollution overwhelming
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.
Criss JamiTags: consciousness society mind psychology media corruption awareness dangerous impact subtle mass-media unconscious radar subtlety persistent unconscious-mind masses-destruction unfortunate
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
Criss JamiTags: world justice war revenge hatred purity media news attitude opposition sincerity ruin spite bitterness vengeance correction pure distinction sincere instigator instigation world-news
Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.
Criss JamiTags: music poetry society expression creativity admiration media respect skill beautiful voice songwriting different-perspective underdog graceful
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.
Lauren BeukesTags: media journalism
{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read.
Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create.
Tags: media propaganda genocide radio uneducated rwanda educated
Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?
Neil GaimanFor how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
Clare B. DunkleTags: war entertainment media game-shows reality-television
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.
Margaret AtwoodTags: media journalism journalists newspapers
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
John BergerTags: lies society media distort
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