I would have to say myself that info is too easy to access. There is only so much people need to know, and there are a lot of things that would be better left out of the public eye. For instance, when Obama gave a withdrawl date of the troops in Iraq, that didn't need to be public news, and should have fallen under National Security information that wasn't to be shared. Now whatever terrorists or whatever are there, know to hide for this amount of time, when we are leaving, and when to come back out and run a muck. That is information working against the right people, and working for the wrong people.
People are too much in other peoples business, and I think that is apart of the information network that need to be hushed a bit too. It's mostly tabloids and stuff I am talking about here. I don't need to know all that shit about those people, nor do I care to know what kind of dress Jennifer Aniston wore to an awards ceremony, or how her relationship with whoever is going. It's a waste of print as far as I am concerned.
Where the access to all this info is a good thing is in a situation like we have right now in the U.S. where there are really conflicting ideas in government being tossed around. Because we were well informed on the matter, We The People, have been able to make a difference in what is and is not being passes as legislation to some degree. If we didn't know that Obama was trying to pass a piss poor healthcare bill that threatened to destroy the private market and socialize it, there wouldn't have been the public outcry of disapproval. There is one group to thank for that too, and that's Fox News.
As a whole I would say the mass communication is a hindrance to peace because people know too much about too many things which given them a million things to bitch about, and disapprove of. Back in the 40's and 50's we weren't glues to different forms of communication all day i.e. Cell Phones, Computers/Internet, Television etc... People didn't know about a lot of the things that were going on and is some ways that was a good thing. I don't want to know every horrible thing about this person or that person. I don't want to be told all the time that my government is fucking me from angles that Steven Hawking is still trying understand. I don't want to hear about this political issue here, or this political issue there. In a lot of ways through the publics embracing all this info they/we have made life much more complicated. Now you see a bunch of horrible shit about everything there is to discuss, or the truly horrible things are encouraged and defended, and we spend our time worrying about it, and pondering the injustices of the world. I say, forget about it. Live your life, and if you find a cause to support go for it, but I don't want to hear about it and every intricacy of it on the news.
If people weren't such busy bodies, and had to be up in everyone's business about everything they do and just worried about themselves things would be much different, and I am willing to bet people would be better for it. Instead every man woman and child has found a false idol in Media, and gives themselves gluttonous helpings of it on a daily basis causing them to live in a reality that they aren't even actually apart of. I think it's kind of sick, and that the media has become too big today, and has too much influence today. Proof positive is the Media getting a president elected who wasn't fit for the job(that's another flaming violation altogether though.)
