Article Review

Hunt's article focuses on self-awareness and independence from others. He argues that the media and the government both use crisis actors and crisis management to control you.For example, the media chooses what to report on, what view to report from, how they shine the light on a subject, and how accurate their statistic are. If one only uses one news source, that source decided what he or she hears about and why it is a good or bad thing. In other words people are unable to make the decision for themselves if they rely on only one source, they have the decision made for them. This adds on to Hunt's comments on how persuasion works. For example, a presidential nominee may have different views from the majority of the public, but they will lie and tell them what they want to hear. At this point the nominee is not informing, he or she is persuading. And people fall for it all of the time. A race for a position is not so much on whether the person is good or not, its about how good they can lie and tell the audience what they want to hear.

Hunt argues that people are played all of the time, which is accurate. If people are told something, they more often than not will believe it without question. For example, if Aaron was to go online and find what the wage gap was between a woman and man, he would likely look at one or 2 sources tops on the first page of google. He would find his "answer" and considering its a "statistic," he will not question where it came from or how it was calculated. Now he is someone who has been played. If he spent an extra minute researching how the wage gap statistic was derived instead of taking it for how others say it is, he would know that the number is completely unreliable and vague. However, people tend to take information way too easily, making themselves gullible. They become the sheep, not the Shepard.