Media Manipulation: It’s Closer Than You Think Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's chief of propaganda, once said “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play” In relations to the dystopian novel “1984” by George Orwell, The state of Oceania is being controlled by a small group of people called the inner-party whose main objective is to obtain absolute power of the citizens of Oceania by manipulating the mind of the citizens. In “1984” the inner-party tampers with history so that their leader “Big Brother” will never be questioned by the statements he makes. Many of the citizens do not question the claims made by ‘Big Brother” they simply accept them as facts. Today is March 9,2016, we as american citizens rely on media …show more content…
The way that these news stations or newspapers work is that they gather stories or evidence and sort through it and only use a small percentage of the evidence they actually gathered. News stations do this with the intention to manipulate our views and opinions towards certain subjects, the mental manipulation we are faced with on a daily basis is a way to keep us from finding out the truth about many different subjects. On many major news channels we see today, we tend to find stories on based on race, the more popular stories are white cops “harassing” a minority group. The media always makes it seem as though the cop had bad intentions and was always planning on hurting the minority. They do this by cutting interviews short, only showing part of the actual confrontation, or simply leaving out major details. I am not saying that there aren't racist cops in our world but many officers seem to be perceived as a threat because media has taught us to fear a cop if you are part of a minority group. Many may argue that this is just an extreme case of paranoia or that we must have more faith in our news stations, however how are these people so sure that they are not getting told lies and media/social media has not done their job and has altered their perception of reality. One evening when Keith Jones, a black firefighter, was walking to his car from a football game with his two sons he passed by the firehouse at which he works at and noticed that the door was left open after a squad went on a call. Keith Jones then proceeded to enter the firehouse to check if anyone was in there, while walking around a police officer engaged him and asked him to raise his hands in the air. The officer called in the incident and asked Jones for identification almost immediately. The officer, after reviewing Jones’ identification, let Jones and