How much of your reality is shaped by the news and other forms of media?

Question

How much of your reality is shaped by the news and other forms of media?

Answer 1

I am significantly affected.

Without youtube, I wouldn't have seen the unexpurgated versions of Wright's pontifications.

I would have believed that Clinton was involved in a fire fight as she flew into Yugoslavia.

But, in a sense, I only learn what is probably not, rather than what probably is.

Answer 2

Not much I dont believe everything I hear and only half of what I see.Some times key elements are left out of a story and how can you go with only half of a story there is almost always a different side to it.Sometimes people are told something in order to get a group to sway one way or another.The power of the media.