OUIL401: Studio Brief 1

Studio Brief 1

Quote: 'The history we read [..] though based on facts, is, strictly speaking, not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgements.'

The famous quote 'History is written by the victors' was the first thing that came to mind when we discussed our quote.

We looked at how modern civilisations such as North Korea can create a totally false reality to brainwash it's people into believing a certain ideology.

Knowledge is power in modern society. In the age of the internet, controlling media output is the most powerful tool people can use to manipulate society into the accepted judgements that dictate how society uses it's moral compass.

News channels such as FOX and newspapers such as The Guardian and The Daily Mail have their own political agenda that aims to influence society's political beliefs.

Brexit was a good example of how right wing media can create far fetched or simply false information to stir up xenophobia and racism for political gain.

Perhaps the majority of people have liberal views yet right wing institutions have the financial power to promote right wing views as the mainstream, moral norm.

                              

Left: Phan Thi Kim Phuc in the Vietnam war photo which was briefly censored by Facebook.

Rigth: The pictures of inmates being tortured in a North Korean prison camp.