Media’s Greatest Murder

Media kills. Easy and simple. Michael Jackson. Who made him ? Who took him down ?
A lot of arguments can go on debating whether Michael Jackson did sleep with a kid, but were there any evidence ? No.
Nothing was proven, and the man was played around with like he was a toy. He was ridiculed. His “masked” pictures covering every newspaper’s main pages calling him “whacko”, when a few years before the same newspaper would buy Michael Jackson’s worn sock, and what happens after he dies (gets killed, COUGH), people like him again. Oh, beautiful media.

As we talked about the Roman Theater in our Theater Arts class today, the professor described how the Romans had actual death scenes occur on stage. An actor, literally dying in front of you. Let’s not forget now, these people were great architects and thinkers, so, no, they were not in the stone age. A civilized nation used prisoners in plays and killed them in front of 17,000-30,000 viewers just because the play told the story of a character that dies throughout the whole script. The professor compared it to UFC today. How ironic, isn’t it ?

I left my Theater Arts class and headed to my History class. The History professor, now, talked about how ‘distorted’ our reality is. He talked about youtube having Kennedy’s live death video uploaded. He talked about Saddam Hussain’s execution video getting millions of views and how distorting that is. After all of this, he said “we might even have a “Death Penalty Pay Per View” program going on soon, jokingly.

I didn’t take that as a joke. I know it’ll happen very soon considering the amount of violence on TV already. People pay to see two able bodied men slam each other until one of them suffers a concussion. Does that ring a bell ? Definitely. Boxing, UFC, Martial Arts, you name it.
Media continues to add crap and distort our lives. If a show doesn’t have cops and drugs involved, nobody would watch them these days. Ask anybody what nationality Kim Kardashian is however, and watch the same answer pouring from all 4 sides.

I never found any song better describing media than this: Coldplay – Lost (ft. Jay Z).
Jay Z describes what ever I wrote up there in his way. I love it, and thought I should share it with you.
“With the same sword they knight you, they gon’ good night you with
Shit, that’s only half if they like you
That ain’t even the half what they might do
Don’t believe me? ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm
See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Caesar, see Brutus, see success is like suicide
Suicide, it’s a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, ni**as sue you, you settle
Every step you take, they remind you you’re ghetto
So it’s tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you have to be Bobby now
And the question is, “Is to have had and lost
Better than not having at all?”
Because I’m…Lost.”
Jay Z