The Medias Effects on the Human Condition, Spritually and Theologically

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

http://mobile.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/08/media/index.html

http://www.ccun.org/Opinion%20Editorials/2010/May/10%20o/Local%20Defense%20Initiatives%20in%20Afghanistan%20Making%20Everyone%20Feel%20Safer%20By%20Douglas%20Valentine.htm

I have posted the previous two links and upon reading, feel the need to express my disgust at the current situation we are in regarding our media and how it impacts & effects us, the human family. The implications are troublesome.

The American Media, and largely Western media outlets in general, are prefabricated policy reinforcement tools of indoctrination, that is all. Its imbedded lack of honest Objectivity, coupled with constant dessensitization destroys human compassion, and stiffles our natural empathy towards our fellow human. Allowing us to be complacent for our egoistic self, our illusions of superiority, & misplaced loyalty to Patriotism. While this alteration of our perception helps us gain in this world, by turning a blind eye to human suffering, it stands to inhibit our salvation on the Day of Resurrection, for we are God's Vicegerents upon the Earth and the means by which righteousness is to be established and maintained, by His call and leave.

For He says in His Glorious Holy Book:

"And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee ? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not." (2:30)

"He it is Who hath placed you as viceroys of the earth and hath exalted some of you in rank above others, that He may try you by (the test of) that which He hath given you. Lo! Thy Lord is swift in prosecution, and Lo! He verily is Forgiving, Merciful." (6:165)

"And when affliction touches a man, he calls on Us, whether lying on his side or sitting or standing; but when We remove his affliction from him, he passes on as though he had never called on Us on account of an affliction that touched him; thus that which they do is made fair-seeming to the extravagant.
And certainly We did destroy generations before you when they were unjust, and their apostles had come to them with clear arguments, and they would not believe; thus do We recompense the guilty people.
Then We made you successors in the land after them so that We may see how you act." (10:12-14)

“And indeed We have honored the Children of Adam, and We have carried them on land and sea, and have provided them with Al-Tayyibat (lawful good things), and have preferred them above many of those whom We have created with a marked preferment.” (17:70)

“Indeed, We have sent down for you (O mankind) a Book (the Qur’an) in which there is Dhikrukum, (your reminder or an honor for you, i.e. honor for the one who follows the teaching of the Qur’an and acts on its teachings). Will you not then understand?” (21:10)