Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Is the media lying to us?


 Nowadays people face different information at every step: while watching TV, reading a newspaper or a magazine, while walking and surfing the Internet. The media is everywhere and all the informations we get from it, has an influence on us. But is all this information truthful? And how does the media affect our life?
When we watch TV or open a magazine and see an advertisment with beautiful models in it, we think they are perfect. Every time I see such girls on TV or in the magazine, I become jealous of their perfect body, beautiful face and hair and really disappointed about myself. I just don't inderstand how they can be perfect! But then I find their photos made by paparazzi and see how they look in real life: no perfect tan, no perfect body, no beautiful hair and no beautiful face. And no reason for disappointment fot me. Advertisment promises to make us slim and good-looking, offer to earn a lot of money without working and to buy a lot of useful things that will make our life better. But it doesn't tell that diet pills are seriously harmful for our health, melting in the mouth chocolate sweets won't help us to find our love and the price of messages we send to get a chance to win in a lottery are higher than of a prize.
Many people say that they may not beleive the advertisment, but they beleive news that they think are based on real facts and cannot lie. But what if news show only a half of real events? What if programms tell it in different ways for some own benefit?
Sometimes people come under this influence because they want to beleive that they can become rich and good-looking hand over fist. But we should be careful and always prove the facts we are going to beleive. And then always make our own opinion about such tihngs to keep out of such lie.

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