On media and influence

No rambling on the content of the video here. Just watch:

My main concern is not that it happened but that the system which promoted it is still in place. It would be virtually impossible to send a barrage of one-sided opinions down the consumer's throat in an evolved media ecosystem. It would be much harder to deceive us. Simply put, the unbridled influence exercised by traditional media needs to be controlled. And as evidenced by the challenges faced (in the face of wide adoption of information consumption through the Internet), we're seeing this control coming into place. From an entry on Dave Winer's blog:

I heard a report in this week's On The Media about a law in Rwanda that requires journalists to be licensed. The justification was that the law requires doctors and lawyers to be licensed, because a lawyer can lose your freedom, and a doctor can lose your life, and they found that in Rwanda that journalists can help create genocide. Pause for thought. Journalism is powerful stuff. Too powerful to be left to the pros.

Think about it!

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