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Fresh on the heels of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict comes waves and waves of propaganda from both sides on the Internet. People using social media often share photos and videos that they haven’t even watched thoroughly. Most people only read a shocking headline and then instantly forward it to all of their lists. I’m reminded of a line by Mark Twain “A lie runs around the world twice before the truth has time to put on its shoes.”
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A question keeps nagging at me: Are all of us, including the left, reacting to an entirely engineered reality, fed to us via an all-embracing media? We get blown this way and that, all of it being determined by whatever ‘event’ the globalized media decides to feed us with. Then, just as ‘mysteriously’, the ‘event’ disappears to be replaced by yet another ‘event’. Delete the scoop?
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