Harry Potter can teach us a lot about the media...
OK - I borrowed heavily from Learned Foot, but it fits!
As I said yesterday, we took the Junion Logician to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Like "The Chronicles of Narnia" before it the Harry Potter series is a story of good and evil and how easy it is for evil to triumph over good if we are not careful.
One of the many subplots that the author covers in this story is how the government of the Wizarding world uses the press to supress the "threat" that the return of Lord Voldomort brings to the Wizarding world. The heros of the movie (and the book) use every opportunity available to them to tell of the upcoming threat and the government and the "MSM" call the brave whistleblowing wizards ridiculed and slandered. Called "stupid" and "liar", the hero presses on undaunted and unbowed. The government even holds rigged "hearings" intending to frighten the hero into changing his story but in the end the truth prevails. Then, when the government can no longer hide the danger from the rest of the world the headlines scream "what did the government know and when did they know it?" Sound familiar? It should.
Like it or not, there is evil in the world. In the 1940's that evil presented itself in the form of Adolph Hitler. Today's evil appears to be the Islamofascists that are trying to blow the rest of us back to the first century. We have a press that is blissfully (willfully?) ignorant to the dangers of this new form of fascism until the time comes when it rears it's ugly head and then they cry "what did the government know and why didn't they try to stop it?". Then - as soon as the threat subsides they go back to their blissful state of denial! How long do we keep riding the roller coaster of ignorance and denial before we finally demand that our press starts to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
As I said yesterday, we took the Junion Logician to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Like "The Chronicles of Narnia" before it the Harry Potter series is a story of good and evil and how easy it is for evil to triumph over good if we are not careful.
One of the many subplots that the author covers in this story is how the government of the Wizarding world uses the press to supress the "threat" that the return of Lord Voldomort brings to the Wizarding world. The heros of the movie (and the book) use every opportunity available to them to tell of the upcoming threat and the government and the "MSM" call the brave whistleblowing wizards ridiculed and slandered. Called "stupid" and "liar", the hero presses on undaunted and unbowed. The government even holds rigged "hearings" intending to frighten the hero into changing his story but in the end the truth prevails. Then, when the government can no longer hide the danger from the rest of the world the headlines scream "what did the government know and when did they know it?" Sound familiar? It should.
Like it or not, there is evil in the world. In the 1940's that evil presented itself in the form of Adolph Hitler. Today's evil appears to be the Islamofascists that are trying to blow the rest of us back to the first century. We have a press that is blissfully (willfully?) ignorant to the dangers of this new form of fascism until the time comes when it rears it's ugly head and then they cry "what did the government know and why didn't they try to stop it?". Then - as soon as the threat subsides they go back to their blissful state of denial! How long do we keep riding the roller coaster of ignorance and denial before we finally demand that our press starts to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Labels: Journalists and Media, Media Bias
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