“The need for objective, institutionally guaranteed, even scientific integrity is successfully being replaced by the desire for intensity.” (Jay G. Blumler)
It brings us into thoughts when even the media that are widely recognized as representation of truth is losing authenticity. The pictures of hardly recognizable faces of celebrities taken by paparazzi can trigger a huge discussion online. People buy the stories, and engage in the excitement of discovering the privacy of others’ life through the uncertainty of the truth. Moreover, not only the resolution of the photo is creating uncertainty, the truth can also be covered or twisted from the presenters perspective. Supposed to be revealing the truth, the news we see on TV and online can be highly biased based on what the authorities want to feed us. In the name of “authority”, we may easily believe in something that is only half revealed that makes it lose its authenticity.
The same thing happens even in live broadcasts. Even though the contents and videos can’t be edited, the angles and perspectives are a trick to change the truth. We can understand it in a way like a magic show. What we see is not magic, not truth, but the angle the magician is playing with our eyes.
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