Media Consumption by Zsuzsi

Today's post was inspired of My Studies about Global Media at Crossing Border Group.

How I consume the Media?

I don't watch TV, because I feel it's so agressive in many way and people can be addict on. The news are always about conflicts, cheating, natural catastrophe. In a way it keeps peoples's mind in a continous state of fearing, or the worse in apathy. In that state of mind, people are easily get being manipulated at all the time. They consumes opinions from the talkshows, ideologies from the political shows, lifestyle from the series and advertisements. If you turn on the TV, it's really hard to stop and run away from all the shits. The ownership of Magazines, Papers and TV Channels are very concentrated. The Mainstream media is just about making profit and power, not to get you to be informed. They are so manipulating. All the system is a big bubble, the price of 1 second advertising time is outrageuosly huge amount.
I prefer to read weekly newspaper. I get used to read 3 type of newspapers in Hungary to have a coverage of all political sides and get some objectivity. It's a fun to explore the political line, and how the news can be served in totally different way. And I can filter them more easily than the TV. But what I really like to read, are the alternative media sites, like Indymedia or several blogs, and I've also started my own blog. I think it's the best way to know about the reality through the ordinary people's opinion.
What is Indymedia?
"The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity."
http://www.indymedia.org
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By Zsuzsi