Orwell rolls in his Grave February 8, 2008

The film we watched in class basically pointed out that now that the media is in the hands of bigger and bigger corporations, the important stories are no longer covered. Comparing Orwell’s 1984 and today’s political power, it’s a little frightening to see a resemblance. It is scary to see how much of the media’s distortions can make over half the population believe something incredibly false…why DID 51% of the nation believe that the one that should be held personally responsible for the attacks on 9/11 was Saddam Hussein? I remember someone in the film saying something along the lines of how this isn’t a democracy anymore but sketches of fascism, and the film makes a shockingly good argument in showing this and brings up interesting but legitimate questions. Why can no one answer the question of why the allegations against Governor Jeb Bush were dropped by CBS after he, himself denied that they were true??? This film kind of makes me think that as the news falls into fewer hands, we are getting more and more detached from reality because of all the media being manipulated and the important stories that are just not even being broad casted. No wonder there is a growing number of unemployed journalists; Now that the government decides what gets broadcasted, what doesn’t get broadcasted, HOW it gets broadcasted, etc, journalists pretty much only have two choices of either pleasing the chamber of commerce through manipulation and censorship or just keeping their mouths shut.