The Era of Soap operas and Newscasts

"The truth is the only refuge against lies,"
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I remember when I was younger that we always sat down at nine at night to watch the soap opera that we loved. At that time, I remember that the novel that was in fashion was called "On These Streets·, here in Venezuela.

The main feature was that just before the broadcast of the novel began, they showed us the newscasts. And we had to endure or see all the news that was happening to us at the time.

That is why it was very common for them to insert commercials and all the news before the time of the novels or movies that had greater interest or a larger audience.

How often do you tune in to watch the news?

In answer to this question, speaking today, I can really say that I try as much as possible not to see them. It is not something that is to my taste or preference, because really the greatest amount of content that I consume at the moment focuses on topics that have to do with what I like to do, or the tasks that I perform, which is the content creation.

And I spend a lot of time watching channels about pixel art, techniques of how drawings are made, the use of different color palettes and all these things that don't really have to do with the news.

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But this leads to the next question:

If you do watch it, do you believe everything you hear them say?

In reality I have learned not to believe what the news says, precisely because they have their own agenda, their own interests.

They like to create opinion matrices, the information is rarely biased and is legitimate. And I can say that the media that are responsible for offering us information that is completely transparent are branded as anarchic and are usually persecuted.

We have the example of WikiLeaks and Assange who is persecuted for showing and filtering all the information that really shows corruption in different things in the world.

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And this answers the question of

Do you have doubts that things are being kept from you?

because precisely recently with the pandemic a large number of things and truths were hidden from us.

For example, there were news programs that alarmed people by saying that there were a large number of hospitals filled with COVID patients and sick people.

And on the other hand, doctors were interviewed showing that their hospital was not full or in a state of emergency due to COVID, but curiously, they did not even have 5% of the beds occupied by these cases.

Then it was the news and there is evidence of this (I recently have evidence of this) because a colleague published it very recently, showing a particular case in Spain where what this news program was precisely saying is denied.

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So this brings us to the last question:

How then do you go about getting the right facts?

I don't really go to the news to get real facts, I don't like to do it because I know that they are very biased and that in most cases the information is a hoax, they simply do it to attract attention, because they need to attract an audience and sell the commercials that subsidize the channel, or what keeps that newscast going.

I don't like contributing to that and prefer to use other, more legitimate channels of information.

In reality, information today has been globalized through social networks and it is very easy to find out a truth without any newscast, but simply directly from the source or from the person who is transmitting the news, what is happening at the moment. Whether it is a flood, a traffic accident, or a robbery, it is very easy to see it through any of the social networks nowadays.

So I think we need to learn to be more rational, have judgment and realize when to recognize news that is manipulated or not.

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