Power of the Media
In the movie Tomorrow Never Dies British secret agent James Bond heads for Southeast Asia to stop a media tycoon who plans to boost the circulation of his global newspaper by starting a war between China and England.
This movie is based on the premise that the media is very powerful and so potentially very dangerous. Since the media controls most of the information about the world that we read and our actions and our votes are to a large degree based on the information that we get from the media the premise is correct. Unfortunately much of the media has a strong bias and unless one exposes oneself to multiple news sources with different views one will be unaware of how the information is slanted. The 21 second youtube video below captures the media bias in the United States.
Some sources of information about media bias are:
