disinformation or information
Disclaimer : I am sure a lot of other people may have got the same ideas that I will be writing about below. & I have nothing against anyone or any country.
The world is now called a global village .. news gets around faster than light (hyperbole).
what is information : Information according to my good old 8th standard/grade textbook is Data which is meaningful.
thanks to all the technology we have now .. anything that happens in one corner of the world is known to the rest of the world in a matter of minutes.
So think how easy it will be to spread a rumor ??? If you have some website which has a lot of viewers and you manage to post some false but shocking news on it .. a lot of people will believe that news and help spread it around too.
nowadays a lot of news reports needs to be taken with a lot of salt .. sensationalism is here to stay :( even a small mishap is blown up to an enormous accident.
what proof does the viewer have that the event ever occurred...
So a state of fear can be easily created by creating such news ... 'V' for Vendetta had a country whose top authorities had a channel which would spread disinformation to the citizens.. and this must be happening in real life in a lot of countries ruled by dictators.
I have a lot more opinions on this but nowadays a blog is considered to be enough proof to indicate that you are acting against someone ;-) ... so no more comments.
The world is now called a global village .. news gets around faster than light (hyperbole).
what is information : Information according to my good old 8th standard/grade textbook is Data which is meaningful.
thanks to all the technology we have now .. anything that happens in one corner of the world is known to the rest of the world in a matter of minutes.
So think how easy it will be to spread a rumor ??? If you have some website which has a lot of viewers and you manage to post some false but shocking news on it .. a lot of people will believe that news and help spread it around too.
nowadays a lot of news reports needs to be taken with a lot of salt .. sensationalism is here to stay :( even a small mishap is blown up to an enormous accident.
what proof does the viewer have that the event ever occurred...
So a state of fear can be easily created by creating such news ... 'V' for Vendetta had a country whose top authorities had a channel which would spread disinformation to the citizens.. and this must be happening in real life in a lot of countries ruled by dictators.
I have a lot more opinions on this but nowadays a blog is considered to be enough proof to indicate that you are acting against someone ;-) ... so no more comments.
posted by ssk | 9:03 PM
6 Comments:
Nee Podang
You have a nice blog here :)
Yes! these days news channels and even news papers have become more of a "campiagn" ground than anything else :(
@ Vijay
yes thank you :p
@shark
Thanks shark.
I find the breaking newsflashes to be a little too much sensationalistic ;-)
forget what information is that u read in digi comm... When u recieve some data and the probability that it is something u dont know of, the summation of it over all such data recieved, is information. (check haykin da)
@doomofhades
ok thank you for reminding me of siman haykin .. that brings back nightmares. btw which one of my classmates are you ???
that wud be Karthikeyan
Post a Comment
<< Home