Media does not have complete control over the minds of people is a generally accepted idea. Unfortunately, this is less true when you leave democracies. When the government is allowed to take control of the media completely, the people will suffer. The propaganda that is found in Pakistan, and before that, the Russian Pravda, demonstrates what media should never be allowed to become. Using a constant bombardment of faulty information, the people can never find truth. If they do somehow manage to discover what is really happening, they are severely punished. Radio bombards the Pakistanis as the Taliban lists their demands. One man in a PBS interview said that no one listened to the radio for fun. It was merely to find out the demands of the Taliban. Videos and commercials are produced glorifying suicide bombers, and songs call the children to the “right way.” One song in particular that made me want to cry,
"If you try to find me after I have died
You won't find my body whole
You will only find little pieces
And if God approves
He will put my body back together again."
"U.S. Stuggles to counter Taliban Propaganda" Washington Post
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