Thursday's class depressed me quite a bit not only because it bashed the field that I want to get into, but because I know it's true and I still want to get into it, despite the fact that journalistic integrity has been thrown out the window. Which brings me to my question: Although we know that media is biased and influenced, why do we still trust it? (and my own personal question, why do I still want to get into it?).
I think the answer is that growing up, we have been constantly fed this idea that media is democratic and free and will give us the real story. However, as we grow older, we realize that media is not at all like that. Ideally, that's what it should be, but that is not what is on our televisions and in our newsstands. It's like when we were fed the story of Christopher Columbus in elementary school and as we grew older, we learn that Columbus didn't discover America, in fact, he didn't even set foot on the continent.
So then why do we still believe in it? And then why do we still feed the same crap that we're fed to our children? Why don't we tell them that corporate media is corrupted and is not to be trusted?
I would write more but my computer's about to die and I don't have my charger.
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