On 4th July 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva in Switzerland announced the discovery of a new particle. Physicists are certain it is the Higgs boson particle, validating a theory put forward 50 years ago by Peter Higgs and five others. There is an invisible energy field throughout the entire universe, made up of Higgs particles, which gives mass to the building blocks of life. Professor Brian Cox told the BBC: It is without doubt one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time!” The mass of particles of matter depends on how much they interact with the Higgs field, how much it ‘Clings’ to them. Some particles are slowed down by the field, giving them more mass, whereas some, like particles of light, are less affected. In almost the same way, there is a ‘Field’ of information pervading our lives. What it clings to are facts and ideas, and it gives these ‘Mass’. Where the Media puts its focus, effects the weight given to different pieces of information. This influences our thoughts, conversations, beliefs, choices and actions. In telling stories about our world, the Media shapes our reality!. In taking responsibility for its crucial role in shaping our Social Consciousness, the Media has the opportunity to expose the solutions to the Worlds problems! As we continue to question the Mechanics of the Universe, so must we continue to question the Mechanisms by which we communicate about our world. “If youre not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X. The men the Public admire most extravagantly are the most daring Liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth! - H L Mencken. During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for their impressions. I have to tell you, said their spokesman, that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same. To get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here, you dont have that. Whats the secret? How do you do it? People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling. To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. - Aleister Crowley. Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average newspaper is like trying to play Bachs St. Matthews Passion on a ukulele. - Bagdikians Observation. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht. Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard quoted in Linda Botts, Loose Talk (1980). All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. - H. L. Mencken. A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding. Its amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld. Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. - Jimmy Breslin. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you dont know what was in the newspapers that morning. A place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. - Joseph Campbell. What is the difference between Literature and Journalism? Journalism is unreadable and Literature is not read. That is all! - Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891. Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. - Russel Lynes. Newspapermen learn to call a murderer an alleged murderer and the King of England the alleged King of England to avoid libel suits. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - President Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819. I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. - President Thomas Jefferson. I read no newspaper now but Ritchies, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - President Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads newspapers. - President Thomas Jefferson.
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