Professional paper
The media and evil in society
Juraj Mirko Mataušić
Abstract
The role of the media and journalists as the critical consciousness of the public and guardians of democracy, of pointing out failures, mistakes and abuses of the holders of public office is not questionable. This particularly concerns the so called black chronics and the exposure of negativeness which is presented in movies. Questionable is rather the quantity of these contents and the place it occupies because of effects which are reached by them. Instead of examining one's own consciousness, of a work on one's own spiritual growth, modern man is so misled by the media that he »resolves« the problem of evil in projecting it on figures from the screen. It happens that the media send a message as if evil in society were someone else's affair, that of extremely evil people, which occurs to be somewhere else. It comes to that projection at great extent because of the fear to focus on one's own weaknesses and negativism. The public of the contemporary media often tries to escape from itself, and this phenomenon of escape is very well known in psychology. We stand here before an enormous field of activity for men of good will, Christians especially. Only people who are aware of these problems and ready to undertake something can succeed. But it is necessary that there be a sufficient number of such people, a »critical mass«, and that they be organized since an isolated individual simply remains too weak.
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84180
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Publication date:
30.6.2004.
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