to think the british media reporting really should take a step back

[germyrabbit]

and think about how they they are influencing our lives

It's a bit late to think about that now isn't it??

They've been influencing our lives since the dawn of time.

What kind of stories are you talking about? Your OP's pretty sparse.

The British media doesn't influence my life.

In what way does it influence yours?

It doesn't influence mine either!!

Is it possible not to be influenced by the media at all izzy/Olympia?

So you've never heard anything you've agreed with in the media that's got you thinking in a different way to before you heard it?

Even if it's unintentional and just other people you know being influenced and you value their judgement and listen to them?

It's not easy to unlearn something you've read or heard, so unless you make a deliberate choice to think the opposite of everything you've come across in the media, nobody escapes it.

Please note the use of 'British', Agent

It seems to me that the OP is referrring to British newspapers which I don't buy and rarely read.

izzy, if you're on MN you will have been influenced by the mail in some way.

Because of your religion?

I think the OP could do with learning how to report a bit more about what she actually means

'I think the OP could do with learning how to report a bit more about what she actually means'

I'm sure MNHQ could cobble together a course in 'How to get posters going in AIBU', modules include -

-The big subjects that never fail to get a rise
-How and when to drip feed
-The dramatic flounce
-How to namechange
-How to get your account back online after degregulation

I listen to all aspects of the media, I watch a news every day, I go on various websites.
If I didn't I wouldn't have a clue what's going on in the world.
I make my decisions on what I listen too, I agree or disagree.
This is surely what everybody does.
How can you learn anything without the media?

Oh I do like the sound of 'degregulation' - is it the weaning of DC off sausage rolls?

Edith!!!!

For better, for worse, but not permanently, ZigZag

It doesn't influence me, I don't think. How does it influence you, OP?

well it is a sad state of affairs that the sun and the daily mail are amoung the biggest sellling papers and both have very right wing agendas

of course i am influnced by the media it is how i learn about what is going on in the world you can not not be influenced by the media unless you shut yourself off totally