The Death of Media

Like I have stated in previous posts, I am all for realism. With this realism we have to take into account the idea of documentaries. Like the presentation about The Death of Media, documentaries are one of the ways people today are trying to find out truth. Although documentaries claim to be “what really happened” I feel it is important that people watching these videos are not getting trapped in the mindset that documentaries are all truth, just like the media they are trying to get away from. Take the documentary Loose Change 2nd Edition created by Dylan Avery, which discusses the ideas of 9/11 and how the US government is actually behind it all, even going so far as to show documents with the Twin Towers being targeted and explosions going off 5 floors below each collapse of the towers. Information that is very interesting yet must be taken like the media that people do not want to trust already. Yes it may seem more real, but really they are just exposing the opposite ideas of mainstream media for the most part, whether the counterpart was a lie or not. Questioning things is not a bad idea, but the untrusting ideas run both ways. Bowling for Columbine is another example where the directors are telling you truths, but they are pointing out the extreme! I am thrilled that people are not taking everything they see as truths, but at the same time this needs to be applied to both sides of the spectrum. Just because its counter-culture does not mean it is right. The information available in the documentaries is very interesting and should be watched, but watched as a “Hollywooodized” movie. People are getting paid, and someone is paying for it to happen.


Bowling for Columbine. Dir. Michael Moore. 2002. Atlantis Alliance Communications.
Loose Change 2nd Edition. Dir. Dylan Avery. 2006. Louder than Words.