I hate lies.

Manufactured news (or fake news) has always been happening, or there would be no reason to have public relation firms. The public is given what is interesting rather than what is important. The news we see on television is highly censored leaving out core details the mass media world should know. Corporations control what we hear, read and believe (Gabriel). Can you believe someone can control your mind?

Well it is true. Propaganda is the leading force of our world. We as Canadians are a free country, yet we are not given what is rightly ours, “we are being deprived of the history which belongs to us." (Berger 11)

http://www.thefakenews.com/archive.html

This site for instance has extremely weird news, but it is interesting and it captures the audiences’ attention. Most of the news stories listed has to do with prominent figures—the most common eye grabber in the field. One of the headlines read: “Pinocchio Become Real Boy, Sues Michael Jackson”. Imagine how many news sites produce this type of false information. Our human nature is to trust the news we hear and see because we have no other source of information. Journalists are being paid off to create manufactured news and newscasts are showing prepackaged reports.

Another prime example of fake news is in magazines. Most magazines produced for teenagers include nothing but gossip. Celebrities are criticized in every way possible—being caught on camera with a co-worker at the beach “skinny dipping” or having a mystery child. We are very gullible to the media: to the newscasts, radios, magazines, bias books, and even advertisements. These corporately funded organizations will soon be exposed because there are some people who are aware of the manufactured news, like you and me. If we want change it can all start from this one blog post.

Works Cited

Berger, John. Ways Of Seeing. Great Britain: British Broadcasting
Corporation, Penguin Books,1972.

Gabriel, Dana. "Fake News and Propaganda: Shaping Our Reality." (2007): n. pag. Web. 8 Oct 2009. .