Waiting For Change

Now if we had the power 

To bring our neighbors home from war

They would have never missed a Christmas

No more ribbons on their door

And when you trust your television

What you get is what you got

Cause when they own the information, oh

They can bend it all they want

That's why we're waiting

Waiting for the world to change

I was listening to the radio the other day and this popular John Mayer song came on and as I mindlessly sung along I finally thought about what he is really saying.  It made me think about how many people sing along and subliminally take in his message without really understanding what they are hearing behind the catchy tune.  Throughout this course we discussed the trust factor multiple times and how the number of people who trust what they see on the news is going down.  

I think that this stanza fits our class particularly well because it is our generation that is going to make the change he is talking about.  I don't know if I necessarily agree that all the information we see on TV is "bent" simply because they own it and they can do whatever they want with it but I certainly think that with the increase in online journalism and the exponential growth of online news sources it will become more and more difficult for the information that is given to be bent at all.  

This was interesting to think about how this change in media is affecting all the different industries and how people are choosing to speak out about it.