bombastic

I've understood for a long time that there are people choosing what is shown on television. The best that we can hope for is that there's something in the media somewhere written by someone likely on some independent and thus very unlikely seen broadcast that's accurate or non-biased. In the extreme this refers to government propaganda and media falsifications to mask the things the controlling people want to remain hidden. Like I said, extreme. But mostly this refers simply to the idea that there's someone choosing what we see or hear in the media. Someone has to direct the actors in a movie, television show, cartoon, newspaper, literature, anything from which you can gain any information. Happily I think this generally applies to consumerism. I'm not going to start saying that the media's feeding us false information on sensitive and relevant topics like 'the war on terrorism.'

But in the fiction in which that control is being used, how would we know how to make a decision about anything? How would we know what opinions or stories to believe? If they're all being made up, does it really matter? And in the case where it's happening, which I'm not saying is now, how would we know the difference?

Well, we'd have to somehow come to our own decisions. When that day comes, what criteria will influence that decision?