Should we be informed?

I agree that we should all be informed because these issues that politicians and scientists are deciding for us are going to affect us all. I feel that we aren't given enough credit as citizens, I think that most of us are well educated and the govenrment don't think we are capable of understanding complex issues when we are.

I personally try to keep myself as informed as I can, I regularly read newspapers and watch the news but I am always aware that these are made under extreme bias. The BBC for example is funded by the government therefore will never be very controversial about them this even streams down in to the type of doctmentaries they show, yes they do have Panorama but the issues they tackle here again give a biased view. The tabloid and broadsheet newspapers are very politcal with several stating there alligance to a particular party which will affect how we the citizens are informed. There have been several documentaries which I felt have really helped inform people of the real issues, one was to do with the Iraq war and looked at what the soliders had to say. At home we only ever hear about the number of soliders who have died and the Iraq war opposition groups never from the soliders themselves, this documentary went to Iraq and Afganistan and gave the viewer a look in to the life of the soliders and their opinions on what they were doing.

I think it is right that the scientists research in to the proposed changes but I think the information they find should be more freely avaliable to the public and possibly we should be able to vote and give our opinions because at the end of the day its us that its going to effect. After watching Al Gores An Inconvinient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle I became even more aware how uninformed people could be so easily influenced. If I had not have seen The Great Global Warming Swindle I think I possibly would have believed ever word that Al Gore said but to be shown the otherside of the argument really made me question what I was being told and I think this should be done for all matters because generally we only ever get to hear one side of the argument. I think the government need to finally appreciate that we do wish to be informed and start getting us a more involved because at the end of the day if they want us to change to make the local community, country and world a better place they need to involve us.