Unethical Media Editing Practices
Answer to Last Entry's Question: While I couldn’t find an exact listing of government sponsored charities, I did find a list of the largest charities by revenue. Please donate.
Goodwill Industries International
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
The Arc of the United States
http://www.forbes.com/2005/11/18/largest-charities-ratings_05charities_land.html
Over the past weeks of reviewing documentaries and national news media clips, a new question has begun to evolve: What is reality? It seems to me that much of the information that reaches us through mainstream media is tainted, each image presented with a systematic intent, every word laced with bias and diverted focus.
We are a nation troubled by the same laws that secure our freedoms. Free Speech. Freedom of the Press. Right to assembly. All provide us with the necessary tools to maintain an effective form of democracy, and yet, these same freedoms, if corrupted, can threaten to destroy us as easily as the rigors of oppressed freedom. A war rages beneath the surface of mass media, and the American public is caught in the cross fires of a hundred firefights. While many media releases are altered, these techniques were not as much stumbled upon as they were investigated and uncovered through countless hours of analysis and scrutiny by many experts in the communications field. The sophistication of the various altering techniques is matched only by that of the systems developed to stop them. Using advanced tools such as digital manipulation detecting computer algorithms and vast research databanks full of previous media editing infractions, these media “watchdogs” have been able to see through the petty methods that lace a once honorable field.
Hopefully, with a devotion to the ideas of our constitution, without mutilating them to serve as functions of profitability, we will learn that all our stories and narratives ever need to sell is, in fact, the one most compelling motivator of inspiration and wonder on the planet after all: Truth.
Question: What are some popular media “Watchdog” websites?
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