This should say something about a singular
approach to a story.
What I mean by this is, we can never know the
truth unless we are willing to wade through
the proverbial ‘bullshit’ to discover what is
reality.
At this juncture we can start talking about the
importance of collaboration in the media.
Traditionally, the ‘news’ relied on cooperation
with contemporary society in order to provide
witnesses and valuable sources from which to
bestow important information. And then, with
cash becoming king, information devolved
into the propagation of agendas (kind of
sounds like propoganda, doesn't it?).
It is here that the information age and social
media has ushered in an era from which we
can disseminate fact from fiction. We have the
ability and power to peruse multiple sources
of information and, in so doing, create our
own understanding of the truth.
With millions upon billions of people sharing
their opinions, we can somehow find some
truth. If not the actual, objective truth, we can
still discover something that matters to us.
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