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By its own definition it is media's job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That's the theory.
Now, let's look at reality:
Media has become a mirror of the disconnected state that humanity finds itself in. News, current affairs, even the dramas and reality TV shows that entertain us serve to exacerbate the religion of polarity being reflected back to us in all its forms - materialism, hatred, killing, idolization and separation. Almost all television, be it sagas and melodramas or daily news, is as addictive as any drug. This single dimensional 'pulpit' from which media preaches to us (often in the centre of our living rooms) actually seeds many of our negative behavior patterns in day-to-day life.
Comment: No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it must have been 'muslim terr'ists who dunnit coz they sed they wud' when their leader died for the third time on May 1st... right, truth and lies in the War on Terror!