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======Suffering 5 - Suffering from the media ...======
Saturday, June 12, 2010. Suffering has been our topic for the last days.
There are many features here - and I would like to raise some particular
points.
Writing and reading about the topic, I realized an important point which
makes me suffer every day. I am quite active in reading the media, newspapers
and publications here and there. That can cause suffering.
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**Terrible experience**
When I am looking through the press, with an active attitude, that is a
terrible experience. There are so many articles which have the sole purpose
to raise emotions and put people down. As soon as someone has any type
of responsibility, the media are jumping at him or her. The articles
are just terrible, real poison of the heart and the mind.
I am looking for some justified words, but I cannot find many. In Germany
the president resigned recently. The words about him were just devastating.
Most articles were negative. It is a feature of the German press to be
negative anyway, but here most of them were even worse than usual. Why is
it so difficult to write some balanced sentences? Why is it so difficult
to talk about good things and talk about bad things as well? Why is the
press so negative? I love Germany, but I do not love the German press,
definitely not. And writing this I am adding to the negative news, too bad.
I am searching for good and balanced articles. There must be an alternative
to the current media presence. I tend to look through the various newspapers,
and one is worse than the other. Over the last two weeks I could not find
many reasonable articles, perhaps those about the European Song Contest, where
a young German girl won, who is quite authentic, which was acknowledged. But
then the articles were putting down her abilities to sing or were trying
to find flaws of her manager.
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**There must be better ways**
But there must be better ways and there will be better ways. If there is one
thing that God taught me so far, then it is the fact that there is always
hope as long as he lives. Since he lives forever, there IS hope. WOW!
I am not clear how we will change the media landscape. I am not clear how we
will get out of the negative spiral, move into something different, something
which is authentic but not just authentic in a complete mess, but with real
hope to build up an encouraging society. I am not clear, but at the same
time I know that it is possible, that it MUST come!
Could it be that the Lord asks me and you and further people to raise their
voice and be constructive with our society? Could it be that politics can
be and will be better than it is currently? Could it be that the media landscape
will change, that sincere and honest and constructive newspapers will arise?
Could it be, that we change the world? Think about it. I believe that we can.
There will be a way. I am looking forward to the next steps and to the
change that is about to come! Praise to the Lord, in him there is hope that
change will be real ...
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