Mass Media Hum 121 8.2 blog on Zeitgeist

In class today we had an excellant discussion about the movie and how we felt about it afterwards. For me it was a total eye opener because i'm not really into politics and the government because I can't do anything to change it. I do watch the news but i'm not going to be one to follow the story on CNN or any other 24 hr news channel. I did get mad because I could not believe the evidence that was presented to support that our government intentionally made up terrorists just so we could go to war with Iraq, get Sadam out of power so we could get the oil and because Bush was mad because Sadam tried to kill his daddy. I have always believed and said that the media only gives us what they want us to see and hear because they are only allowed to give that. This world is controlled by maybe 3-5 people that have been sooooo powerful for sooooo long that no one could take them down. Our government is being controlled by these people because we all know Bush is not smart enough to be making the decisions the he is. Lets face it we only tune into what the media mesmerizes us with. For example the explosion of the twin towers if we would have looked past the huge billows of smoke from the pictures that were played over and over and over and over we would have seen what they showed in the film. Because we are trained not to look at the bigger picture only at whats at hand or what the media gets us to focus on we are like little puppets until someone brave enough shows us the truth. People say everything happens for a reason and this is true I just feel that if we always remember that we all might look at the bigger picture and start questioning more than just letting it go by. There are tons of examples of this like

• the vice president owning the company that was awarded open ended contracts to supply our soldiers in Irag with stuff
• NORAD doing exercises 2 yrs before 9/11 with aircraft as weapons and using the twin towers as a target
• never seeing any of the hijackers or others involved in the attacks brought to justice

all of these got media attention then got swept under the rug. I am glad though that people like Michael Moore and others are standing up and showing us with evidence another side than what we were exposed to and letting us decide how we believe. After watching this movie it sure does make me think more and broader than I did the day before. I dont think I will ever forget what the movie said to me and how I need to step back and look at the bigger picture in life.