Is R Kelly guilty?

? Or is he just another victim of a multi-billion dollar media industry that uses sex as it’s main ingredient to generate more revenue, money and power.?

There is no doubt that sex sells

Story by Pascal Molliere;

There is no doubt that sex sells, above all else. Sex is the biggest most lucrative subject on planet Earth when it comes to sales, and in spite of political correctness or the horrors of some of the worst cases we hear about, the problem becomes an oversaturated and numbing issue that we can tend to take for granted these days, as more and more stories emerge about people in positions of power and influence.

The very people who were also used to generate similar headlines when they were selling music videos, records or downloads, or real-estate or films and tv shows. Sex scandals today are ten-a-penny, just another mass-shooting, or terror attack, right? Much in the same way as mass-shootings, or suicide bombings have become so frequently reported, sexual assaults and sexual misconduct are beginning to reveal another truth in all of these ‘headlines’.

That the media industry is worth an eye-watering $22 trillion annually. And that’s not taking into account the industries that place these well-known icons into their respective positions in the first place.  The movie industry ? Add another $500bn, just in one year, and that’s just the US film industry.

Globally, the film industry is worth a whopping $16trillion a year.

Real-estate? Fashion? Sport? We can only begin to imagine the revenues and values of such  behemoths, and other massive global machines, where once these well-known names first made their marks. They’re all open-season it seems to an industry that sits quietly in the side-lines, pumping out misery and negativity. Profiteering from scandals and stories, selling ‘news’ of people’s sorrows and pain. Making more pain, and selling it back to us.

I’m talking about NEWS.

When we begin to examine how the news industry feeds off all other industry, making money out of manipulating us all, and getting away with it - for centuries, we can start to really deconstruct the myths and start to piece together the real scandal. News - what is it? Do we trust it? Can we trust it? What happens when bad news hits us personally? Do we like it when someone hears our bad news? Don’t we want to shy away from those not so easy subjects we want to keep to ourselves?

In an age where ‘openness and transparency’ are banded around like commandments in the bible, should we not start to take a closer look at an industry that continues to make trillions of dollars on the backs of all our pain? Can we not imagine the pain and sorrow of having all our worst fears exposed for all to see, and ask ourselves who benefits from knowing such bad news? Why does it even matter? Can’t we simply get on with living peaceful, happy lives with one another in harmony?

Effectively, this is the fundamental driver of what bad news is.

Taking what are fundamental parts of humanity and exposing them. Taking someone’s sensitive information and telling everybody else about it. It’s almost like a racket. An industry that exposes people’s sensitive information, but it has become so out of control, so easily spread via the internet, that sometimes a story can spread faster than we can even think.

But if we don’t start to regulate and control the news industry, we are in danger of losing our minds. We, the people are born with an innate sense of instinctive mechanisms. Fundamental, natural defences that are designed to save our lives. Human reflexes and natural reactions that protect us against things we don’t really know about or realise when we are born.

We blink when anything threatens or comes close to our eyes. We put our arms out naturally if we fall, and we are born with instincts that stop us from hurting ourselves. But as we develop, and as we grow, we become conditioned, manipulated and directed. From schooling, to tv, to newspapers, images and advertising. So much so that the more we learn, the louder some messages have to be to cut through the relentless bombardment of information that fights for our attention.

News and media find that they have to compete for ever decreasing attention spans, and since the internet, we have now become creatures where if a message isn’t delivered in split second timing, we simply click away to another page.

The average time now spent on a web page is less than 2 seconds.

But that’s ok, because it’s there forever. We can always click back, or look it up some other time. Right?

But it’s the headlines that tend to stick. And in an age of split second attention spans, these ‘sound-bites’ of garbled yet piercing stories tend to change opinions so rapidly, it’s almost like the volatile and changing values of bitcoin when confidence leaves the markets. Nowadays, all it takes is just a few words to send the markets reeling into a nose-dive panic sell situation, where billions of dollars are wiped from the value of a stock on the say-so of Alan Greenspan or Warren Buffet.

There is no doubt that news is a fundamental aspect of our industrial world, but now in an age of such fierce competition for such shorter and shorter attention, are we not at risk of an industry taking control of our entire worlds with manipulated and distorted stories that simply are used to shift vast amounts of wealth from one part of a bank to another? Of course there are some very horrific and terrifying things that happen in the spectrum of human behaviour. Death and destruction, war and famine, drought and starvation.

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