Mauricio Castellanos


Tons of information comes to us every day, even if we do not want it such as advertisings. Media is everywhere and in certain way is great, but the real information sometimes does not reach us in the way it is supposed to be, and even sometimes this information is switched or manipulated to believe everything is all right. This has been getting better with the path of the time, yet it is not complete. There is a little graph about how any information is working and given to us from the press, the Spheres of consensus, controversy and deviance. Where the topics that the majority agrees with, are in the sphere of consensus, and for some people this one might not even be a true at all, but they are the minority, though. In the sphere of legitimate debate, we can find ideas that can be either right or not so, depending in the way of perspective of each individual. On this sphere, press is willing to take some part of this information, and give the chance to let everyone know their believes, and even sometimes persuading or ignoring the people in question, even though the press is supposed to tell you the story, and not to persuade you to think as they do, specially on debates related to politics. The last sphere is the one of deviance. Onto this sphere lays information that is not shared as it is supposed to be, or not even shared at all. We can see some information such as wars, politics, natural catastrophe and a lot of poverty in the world in our newspapers, and other media. But if you keep track of the same history from one news report to another, you might find the same case, but different information. Some people gets afraid to tell the truth when they do it, or they get oppressed by some boss of them, and so they decide to change the information they just got or saw, to something more sweet to the community they are informing. Since the press was made, they were oppressed by the politicians to tell, well, lies to the people and to make the situation look better, but the people are noting this little by little and the people is losing trust in the press and anything they say, which is a bad thing, in my opinion. I think not all of the information we get is false, but certainly some it is, so better if we can take a look ourselves in other sources such as internet, radio, or any other kind of media at our disposal. We are a lot influenced by any kind of media every minute, but our own opinion is the one that matters, and you have to know when you are wrong, seeing the facts you find on media, and learn to assimilate the truth of our days such as some catastrophe or war, and help a little whenever we can.