Why the bad News?

One of the things I do when I wind down in the evenings and weekends is follow the news, particularly about Eritrea and Africa. Update myself about the situations in the horn of Africa and the world in general. A friend once said to me, as soon as he wakes up in the morning the first thing he does is put his Radio-on just to make sure he is not the only one alive and also to find out if there were any developments that might have happened in the world while he was asleep; in case aliens invaded the world. I personally think that is too much of a paranoia, but I don’t blame my friend for being paranoid.

As most of us know, media has become one way of controlling the public. Control through manipulation, by instilling paranoia and fear. Using the power of propaganda and counting on the gullibility of the masses, fear and hate are injected into the minds of the population towards a scapegoat to divert attention from the facts and having total control over the destinies of ordinary people. The world population is bogged down in dealing with all the hustle and bustle of daily living and as a result become passive.
 
If we look at the situation in the Middle East for instance, weapons of mass-destruction were echoing on radios, televisions and newspapers. Saddam Hussein, the one time very good ally of the American administration during the tragic Iraq and Iran war, suddenly became the prime enemy. Situations changed and the tragedy of 9-11 occurred and a scapegoat had to be found and then followed the hate propaganda. “Weapons of mass destruction that can put the world in danger were being invented in Iraq”. This was one way of injecting fear and paranoia. Now we know there were no weapons of mass destruction, the media diverts the world population from the realty. Questions have not been answered, to the contrary more lame reasons are fed through the media to cause more fear.

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