Morgan's newest goal

I hate the media. There is no other way to say what I have come to realize and it is that I despise the media. I wish it didn’t exist. We are a society controlled by everything we read and everything we see. Hey I actually used to believe those Dove ads about women being beautiful on their own and we’re all naturally beautiful, until I found out the company that owns Dove is the same company that owns Axe, a male body product line with ridiculously sexualized advertisements. So what’s real?!?! I find myself getting angrier and angrier with the media while watching the way news teams have been reporting the attacks at the Boston Marathon. I was watching CNN yesterday and the news station has taken to calling the incident ‘Terror in Boston’ and I just went to the website to see that the top three stories are all about Boston. My question is what about the rest of the world? What about Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town where there are shootings daily right down the street from where I work? These news groups are giving the attack a label, they are branding the incident to draw more hysteria around it and most importantly on their list, to gain the most viewers. These stations don’t really care about what they’re reported, as long as it’s the biggest and most radical story it can be to get viewers! I can confidently say one of my newest goals since taking Marita’s class this semester is to question everything I see.