Lots of people are influenced by the news they get flooded with in the media. This is even more true these days since social media gets to feed sound bites and images straight into your melon. The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is a glaring example of how media shapes collective thought.

The Palestinians have been producing propaganda for years. It makes me wonder how many gullible celebrities and average people have been taken in by the massive productions that go on.

It is pretty easy to be swayed. So called main stream news organizations are either victims, or accomplices. And people that put faith in CNN, Reuters, or others, to filter out the chaff from the real news should rethink their opinions.

I really wasn’t made aware of how much crap is actually picked up as fact by our outlets until the 2008 Israeli conflict with Hezbollah. Blogs around the world were finding examples of journalist malpractice on a daily basis. The Zombietime blog, which now seems to be defunct, still has their archives up, and that is a great place to start an education about what is reality and what we get fed.

This is pretty much true all over the region when western news organizations hire local stringers to capture “events.” This video should be mandatory viewing for anyone that owns a television.