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This blog is to discuss the causes and solutions of media and campaign misinformation. I would like to address the obvious fact first and that is people lie to get something they want. In the simplest terms, candidates lie to make their opponent look bad because they want to be president. Most would agree that is a pretty substantial reason to lie. More complicated reasons why one might lie in the media or a political campaign is a skewed sense of protectionism. The media and the powers that control it would like to convince themselves that they are doing everything they can do in our best interests. They revolve around a system that tells them they must protect us from ourselves. Many pieces of popular cinema include examples of government agencies subtracting or omitting facts to keep the populace from panicking because of some impending threat. I would have to be honest that I would not know where to begin to k now how to get around the information blockade that surrounds our society in today’s times. News and other media outlets are controlled by unseen forces that are scattered in dozens of parts global wide which would make it hard to even identify any such power, let alone neutralize it. The only way I have found to not be taken in blindly like some mindless sheep is to discriminate the information I take in and use my critical thinking skills to try and determine what fact is and what is manipulated.