Proof That The News Doesn’t Deliver

This is about how REAL, IMPORTANT. WORLD CHANGING news simply ISN’T told to people.  Nothing else.  It’s not about the right or wrong, the benefits or dangers of this technology, it’s just about THE NEWS.

The News

What Craig Venter and his team has done is MOMENTOUS, by any standards.  In my mind, it’s even more incredible and certainly has more far-reaching effects than landing humans on the moon.

LIFE has been created on a computer and in the lab using chemicals (like Deoxyribonucleic acid).  This very act SHOULD have created all kinds of debate and probably massive outcry (from the religious community mostly) but NOTHING has been said about it and for this reason:

ALMOST NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT!

Why?

Most people have the “tabloid mentality”.  This mindset is summed up pretty much as GOSSIP!  Rather than hearing about REAL, IMPORTANT news, they would rather hear about some women being abducted, or a child going missing. They’d rather gossip about how terrible it all is and how “somebody should do something about it”.

Human Interest

The newspapers are told what to publish by their editors, and the editors are told by the newspaper owners what kinds of stories are to be published.  The owners want REVENUE (money) from advertisers, and they know that “human interest” stories are the best way to get people to keep reading their newspapers and therefore keep the revenue flowing.

Rather than newspapers (and Television) giving you the news, they give you gossip.  It’s that simple!

History

I have no doubt at all, that the history books of the future will tell of Dr. Venter and his team’s work as being of monumental importance.  At the same time, I also believe that the newspapers of the day (probably electronically delivered) will STILL be telling the gossip hungry tabloid readers of people going missing, and how some singer’s dress was a little too revealing.

The Media

Like all good businesses, the media gives people what they WANT, not what they need.  If TV news and newspapers gave people what they SHOULD have, we would currently all be amazed by this incredible feat, and we’d be scared out of our wits by the holocaust that we are going to experience in the coming decade.

If you want to know what’s happening of IMPORTANCE in the world, DON’T turn the news on, because that’s NOT where the important information is.  Check out this video too:

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