Terranova Chapter 5

• Is it true that people are being brainwashed by the media?
• As individuals are we being subject to think that images in the media tell the 100% of the truth of whats going on in the World?
• Have we become desensitized to the evil in the world because of mass media?
• Or in general do we just not care?
• From Terranova: Is our problem really that media propaganda is used to cover up the truth?
• Or is it that the Truth is not covered up any more because what is important is not to shield people from the truth but to have an effective strategy that is able to capture  and hold together a certain type of intensity?

            After reading chapter 5 of Terranova, it seemed to be the only chapter that I understood, the only chapter that I felt had real substance to it. I realized for years I did not care about the news, what was going on in other countries, the wars the US have found ourselves in, ad etc, but as Terranova mentions, the internet is changing a lot of that. I've been so used to seeing the same kind of shows on the air,  either real conservative right-winged republicans, or extremely liberal democrats fighting, slandering, and failing to come to some type of mutual agreement. Only being told what they think we want/need to hear, instead of the whole story. As an audience of the mass media, I believe I'm just as fed up as Terranova, and tired of being told what to think. How to feel. Where my allegiance should ally. I just want to know what is really going on in the world.

              I feel the internet has done this for a lot of people and is continuing to do so. Though you'll still find those liberals and conservatives on the web, as a participant in this World Wide Web, we have more power/control to dictate what it is we want to entertain us, or what we want to be informed about. Though it is never guaranteed that the info we receive is 100% accurate , it still acts as a mediator between the mass media conglomerates and their audiences.