Throughout the week, we have focused on modernism, postmodernism, and mediation. Only when we really focused on it was when I realized how important social mediation is. We all watch football games, read magazines, see articles on Yahoo! News, and see things on the news, but we never actually know what really happened in anything we read or hear about. Do we really think the police are telling us everything there is to know about that specific murder case? Do we really think the media is going to tell us what that celebrity was actually doing or the real reason for them pushing away the paparazzi? No; and we will never actually know the truth. We only know what we are being told or shown, nothing else. This is when I realized how important it is to not get caught up in the media.
So many people are angered with celebrities when they do something wrong, but not many people tell the story from their point of view, only the paparazzi's. Most of us yell at the television when something ridiculous happens in the sport we are watching, but we aren't actually there, so we don't know what it was like from the perspective of the referee and why he made that call. Mediation could be such a huge problem, but it's also a huge help. Some people can't afford to go to a concert or go to a sports game, so the television and the news help in that way. I just wish that the people that can afford it would make the effort to attend these events so mediation doesn't get in their way of the actual understandings of them.
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