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We actually
have rather large yet easy roles in being television consumers. We have to make
sure we don’t take everything we see on television as fact. Information that we
are being fed through that magic box could just be opinion or inaccurate. We
must realize this and make sure we do further investigating on a subject before
we take it into our mind as being a factual thing. Usually, and I am also
guilty of this, a person will see something on television and automatically
program it into their mind as 100% true. Not everything ever created on video
is true. I’m surprised that television doesn’t have a similar reputation as the
Internet. Most people know that anyone could make up a website about something
fake or post misleading information on any topic so it is usually not taken as
fact. Well any television company can decide to punk the viewers with a fake
event too. Look at the Bronswick Affair. That video really taught me to
re-analyze all types a media before accepting it as truth because anything can
be fake. Another example would be the war of the worlds. Everyone accepted that
as truth in the moment because everyone just assumed that whatever was said
through the radio was the 100% truth. We just need to make sure we don’t accept
everything that comes through the television as fact. This is an awfully big
task, but can be done by just sitting in a chair staring at a screen and
existing. Simple enough.
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