TE: Pages 85-94

I found the information on pages 85-94 to be simultaneously very disturbing and interesting.  The fact that Dylan Avery fabricated information and used information that was possibly incorrect from websites that were probably not secure makes me consider the way news and rumors about significant events is spread to the public.  What is true and what is fabricated? Who are we supposed to believe if the media is a conspiracy? I do rely on my local news and national newspapers for secure information, but I will admit that I often fall victim to the fabricated information I learn from magazines and tabloids.  The fact that Avery was able to create scenes that made viewers wonder why the government hadn't done certain things/why the general public was not privy to certain information surrounding the issue (i.e. "Why don't we see any aircraft debris at the Pentagon scene?") makes me think of how tabloids, however silly they may seem to us, do actually make us see the celebrities they are portraying in the way that they are portraying them from then on.  Once an opinion about someone else is established, we tend to create concrete judgments about others without realizing that, whether or not we change our superficial opinions about others, we will always harbor those initial judgments about them. I see a relation between the two concepts - the brainwashing techniques used by celebrity tabloids and the brainwashing that exists in the media.

I know that I am not the only American citizen who believes things like what Avery was promoting in his film.  I did not see his film, nor had I heard of it when it was created, but reading about it now, I can imagine that, were I to have heard of it, I probably would have been intrigued enough to have watched it.  I am naïve enough to probably have believed the information I would have learned from watching it.  I can’t imagine how viewers were influenced by the messages in this film.