The manipulation of the information
By Laia Esquerrà
We all know that the information we get through the media has been manipulated, but to what lengths are people willing to go to sell something?
The house on the left is the same as the one on the right but they do not look alike. The real house (on the right) is falling to pieces, has green netting and is full of graffiti. In the magazine, the house is plain white, has some amazing wooden doors (one of which does not actually exist) and looks like a restored country house. No one would recognize them.
After seeing this example how can we believe what we see in magazines? Every single picture is manipulated. We don't get any real information through the press and even less through commercial magazines. Fashion magazines are also great manipulators. All the models get longer legs, have their skin colour and shadows modified and their clothing gets retouched.
The only type of magazine we could believe could be the celebrity magazines, which are meant to reveal their secrets, but none can prove what they print and celebrities often get annoyed because the information published is not true, so who should we believe? I think we shall never know where the limits are.
