My JUA experience was very meaningful. I am still, a month later, flabbergasted that while the gaming industry, a 10 billion dollar a year industry that gives instant gratification for successful violence, that real news of global issues is censored by our major newspapers because it might offend the public. I learned that the lack of regulation of content in the gaming industry is contrasted by the role of large corporations controlling or "censoring" what news is published in newspapers and periodicals. We don't learn about anything that might jeopardize their corporate agendas.
I have learned to question what I read, but most importantly to question what I am not reading. I have learned that I need a non-American source of world news.
And this leads to the corporate interest in politics... which effects the world economy as well as the environment...
I have learned that as a consumer I am essentially giving my consent to the corporations I support by buying their products. I pledge to be an educated consumer.
Did I learn anything meaningful on JUA? YES.
Reading An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore has fed my interest and understanding of corporate censorship and goals of "disinformation." (See page 263, AIT.)
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I think it is important to be an educated consumer because whoever wrote this article was saying that if you don't your supporting the knowledge of corruption to miners. Also knowing world news about this issue is much more effective than just knowing the American stats.
-Rachel Rollins
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