News Article: BBC News UK 6th September 2011
Out-Law.com (Legal news and guidance Pinsent Masons) 6th September 2011
[References from 2 different and reliable sources]
Positive/Negative Points:
Relationship to our media-based narrative:
Ø Media in our society seems to be gaining more power – encroaching and becoming a very powerful institution and although separate from government control/ privately owned it could sway how people think –manipulate the truth –become a ruling/consuming power of its own.
Ø This idea has the potential to give corporations the power to manipulate society’s trust in the media, due to its influence in shaping our personal opinions on a number of issues –most especially politically – and this may also lead to the corruption of leaders who would work with the corruption to use this bias news for their advantage.
Ø Even now the Murdock corporations highlight the dangers of biased news businesses. By present commentary and bias as fact Murdock could passively rule a large percentage of the world (4.7 billion) by selectively choosing what they know and what they don’t. Without the News Industry as the epitomy of truth and fact a nation would become a dictatorship.
Ø We only have to look into ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ to see that for decades the fear that media is no longer the pinnacle of free speech that it once was is a large concern.
Our narrative is the, seeming, political backlash against the Media Industry’s abuse of power, rivalling that of the government. We have taken this concept to an extreme to examine the issue of free speech in today’s world whilst suspending the disbelief of the viewer. Our dystopian future is where idealistic values, of removing the lying influence of the media, become corrupt anyway leading to a people’s rebellion.
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