Just believe, Don't Question

There is so much information out there and much of it is junk info. We hear so many stories about what this and that celebrity did or what they did not do……and much more useless and time consuming crap that many of us find to be very entertaining.

Almost all the stories we hear are about are written and spoken about from the perspective of the magazine writers, journalists, and people spreading rumors and what not. Usually they are accurate but sometimes you hear ongoing stories about such and such celebrities and you wonder “I didn’t know he/she would do such a thing”. What most people don’t realize is that actually it may be just rumors and the media adding some “flavor” to the story for more attention and views. Mainstream news gives us information all the time about things they only heard about form other sources. And even the journalists and magazine writers just spread the information like wildfire even if they themselves have doubts about the information they are providing.

For example, Michael Jackson was accused of molesting a child and the media talked about the accusation and the charges against him in such a way that their interpretation seemed very one-sided. In the process, they smeared and slandered his character and portrayed him in a way that people were bound to believe that the molestation accusations were indeed true. When things like this happens, most of the time the media broadcasts the accusations and what the accuser claims and not so much about what the defendant has to say. The media does not even look into the speculations and accusations with skepticism and that is how we get one-sided stories.

After Michael Jackson died, the boy that accused him admitted that Michael Jackson did not molest him or anything of that nature. People think the motive for accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation was because the boy’s parents and the accuser himself thought that they may be able to make millions of dollars from that case. Although he was not found guilty, such propaganda, gossip, and “news discussions” of Michael Jackson molesting a child shows that when people are fed the same information (even if it is not true or is easily debatable) over and over via t.v., radio, and magazines, they actually start to believe what they hear without much scrutiny. People believe what they hear from the news as if it is their own mother telling them something and they believe it without evaluation. I am exaggerating a bit but the exaggeration does fit the nature of the matter and what is happening every day.