The Information Conundrum
The Information Conundrum The foundation of all judgments is information. We live and thrive in an age of information. Don’t know something? Just look online. So why is it that we are told ‘don’t believe everything you hear’, or ‘CNN is full of bs’? How is it that we have come to, in some cases even, despise the very people and organizations tasked with giving us information? The News has lost its credibility. (Maybe this is why people spend so much time online…) We need the truth. To fix the problem, we need to first figure out why it happened in the first place. It helps to first begin with the purpose of the whole system. The purpose of the “media” is to inform the people of what is happening in the world; to allow that information to aid the populous to make rational and moral decision in life. This could be as simple as a farmer determining the price to sell his corn, or all the way to determining who will lead the entire country. The farmer might see that there was a hea...
Comments
Post a Comment