These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.