Does Objectivity Exist?

I started a comic book named “The Influencing Machine.” So far the book is about how a reporter named Brooke Gladstone, who “cant really process things unless [she’s] reporting them.” (12) This means that she has an obsession with expressing things she feels or hears about so that not only the public can know and understand them, but also she. In the comic she is expressing how she feels about the relationship between the media and the public.

At the beginning of the comic Gladstone makes interesting points about how society depends on the media, and how “we hunger for objectivity.” (13) But as I continued reading I realized that even though we might say we do look for objectivity we just search for what we want to hear. This can be clearly seen when presidential elections are taking place. There are certain channels that are more liberal or conservative than others, which mean that the people from the different political parties will go to their “parties” channel. Here the person is going to be content with what is being said, and will be convinced that who they are voting for is a genius, and he/she will probably win. And when we hear about another biased news, which is contradicting our opinion, we just say, “those guys are consuming lies. They are getting juiced up. Their media diet is making them stupid.” (13) Why? Because we are hearing things that we don’t want to hear.

With those points being said, I have drawn to conclusion that actually is more like a question. There is a strong relationship between the public and the media, both of them control each other. The media will say what the audience wants them to say, and the audience will keep on viewing that channel because they say what they want to hear.  So with those points being said I am left with these questions: who is really telling the truth? Is there an actual truth?

Visual vocabulary:

Punditry: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

Craven: contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.

Libelous: a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.

Tedious: too long, slow, or dull: tiresome or monotonous.