Everyone Loves A Burger, But No One Wants To See The Cow

I thought this was a good way of using the media to get a great point across. Lush, a fresh handmade cosmetic company, have a strong stance on how they treat testing on animals and animal cruelty. What they did in this video, is have an artistic performer sit in front of the shop window and have it look as though she is treated like an animal who is being tested on.

The result was that passing shoppers were horrified, calling the police, and taking pictures to show authorities. It was a brilliant way to show that this is happening behind close doors whether we like it or not and we need to take a stand against it. I thought this was good because you never see the horrors of animal testing, not because its too cruel, no, I think its because the companies will be at a loss of money once they are shamed, and sadly, they are a part of a cruel system that will do anything for profit

I think if the media shown the truth about certain topics a lot more would be done. There is protecting the people, and then there's lying to them...which do you think is being done?

Photoshopping Our Reality?

In 2009 Kelly Clarkson did a magazine cover for the magazine SELF.
In it, she was photo-shopped so much that it changed her complete look and weight making her real body seem undesirable.

A link to the article can be seen here and even has the magazine quoting:
“Yes. Of course we do retouching,” she writes. “Did we alter her appearance? Only to make her look her personal best.”


It had me scrolling through other articles that talked about magazines and how they create an idea of perfection that is completely unachievable. If this is what is being shown to us, is any of our ideal bodies even real? I myself always want to be a bit thinner, a bit buffer, better skin on my face, better hair...but has anyone got this? Is it only possible through digital remodelling? If so why isn't this being told to us? Is the industry making so much money out of us trying to make ourself feel better by running up a never ending hill that our health comes last? All these questions kept flooding through my mind.

I finally found an article with a bit of hope. In some magazines in France, a place where fashion and models Im sure is plagued into the mainstream, the magazine must show a bronze, silver or gold ring at the bottom of the photo-shoot picture. Bronze means slightly altered, silver means quite and gold means a lot. At least in some areas they are seeing the harm it can do to young people, as for others, well, they're just another way of profit.

Boston Bomber

I remember reading about this when it first came out and the out rage that came with it, but after researching a bit more, I found how media has shaped peoples views on the suspect of the Boston Bombings.

We are constantly plagued with the idea that to be perfect you must look perfect, and that is exactly what is being shown here. The suspect was seen as "good looking" 'handsome" and "hot" by many people and because of it made them say that "how could someone so good looking be that cruel?"

This shows us that people are being deceived by their own perceptions.

The media tells us that to be perfect, you must look it, and because some people saw him as good looking, his wrong doings are almost being forgotten and a tragedy story was written about him.

Its interesting to see that our perceptions have been trained to think that if it looks good, then its morally good.

Fox News

I thought this video was really really interesting. It showed how Fox News twists and edits their media to try and make the public think differently. They used a clip from a comedy show and tried to use it as a factual statement by a politician. I found more and more videos on Fox News twisting and misguiding the public and I found it fascinating that its still broadcasting. Here are more videos I found