the media makes me laugh

...But the thing is, it's the laugh that means more "wow, I can't believe how horrible/ignorant/stupid/crazy people are" as opposed to an actual "that's funny" laugh. The uneasy laugh of disbelief that there are people out there who say and think the most ridiculous things ever, and that there are groups of them that can dangerously unite and spread their crazy ridiculous ideas to more horible/ignorant/stupid/crazy/simply bored people, and perhaps inspire them enough to act.

If you want to see what I mean, just look here. A nice lively discussion about the JIDF, no?


After this, I also decided that I'm going to be dividing my media coverage discussion into two sections because we are dealing with two different but equally viable monsters here. First, I want to discuss what I'm going to call "old" media, only because it's been the way the pre-tech crazed got their information, not because its even that old. This would be film, television, and print. While all important and powerful mediums still to this day in changing the opinions of the people who take advantage of it, I'm pretty sure I'm one of the only people under 40 who still watches the news on a television every day, and watchers are less involved with content than more modern ways of communication.

Meanwhile, the Internet is a whole new means of communication, so I liked to think of it as "new" media. It opens up a whole new world of everything. Not only can you access all the news you want, on any channel you want, in any part of the world, when you want it, there's a whole portion of media coverage taking place on social networks. It's a topic way too dense to cover in one article. I could write you 20 pages on what I think about Facebook alone. But it opens up a whole new way that the media changes the way we think and talk about issues- and whole new way to destroy people's views every day.

Everything has its pros and cons. I will talk about this when I finally get into the media bit I was going to write- it will be done by next Monday, I promise.

Lehit.