What better way to spread news across the country that by having the same mass message spread from station to station, channel to channel, in almost the same droning script that claims that “Our greatest responsibility is to serve our _____________ communities” in San Antonio, Eastern Iowa, mid-Michigan, and all across the United States? Recently, a video was released in which several news stations were played next to, above, and below each other, all in a real-time montage, to show viewers that news stations across the country are broadcasting the same messages and stories across the nation, but instead claiming that their greatest concern is for their region. Coincidence? That is highly unlikely. Power possessed by modern-day media has grown to an alarming rate in which people have been believing whatever they read/see/hear online. After all, it’s online, so it must be true…right? Without people actively fact-checking multiple sources, they are surrendering themselves to self-acclaimed ignorance. These news stations all claimed that “one-sided news stories are plaguing our country,” and yet, these stations are feeding right into the “fake news” generation by feeding the same messages to their audiences. It’s a cycle that is bound to repeat itself if these stations keep spoon-feeding the same sloppy news to its viewers, claiming to care for their specific population’s well-being, but proving otherwise with an identical teleprompting scrip as a region across the country. These news stations have also claimed that “the sharing of false news has become all too common on social media,” and that no is checking their facts, which lead people to mindlessly believe whatever they hear/read online or on social media. In the final minute of the video, news stations are added to the screen so that by the end of it, there are 36 “different” news casters all saying the same thing: “unfortunately, some news social platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think.” Interesting. The final montage of the video consists of each news station saying, “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.” Yes. Yes, it is. Upon finishing Dave Eggers’s novel, The Circle, I have become frighteningly more aware about the influences of mass communication and “fake news” exhibiting control over its audience. Eggers’s makes valuable and satirical commentary on the advancement of technology and the sharing of information online and on social platforms. Nothing is private—everything is known. The problem today is that we do not know the real truth. We can thank the news for that. (Video name: “This is What Mind Control Looks Like” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL1zwMtz_Ho)
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