Most people do not realize how much they are controlled. One of the biggest ways is through the media. It has a much more occult meaning then many know.
Originally Media referred to an ancient country of SW Asia, south of the Caspian Sea, orresponding to present-day NW Iran, whose capital was called Ecbatana. The country was Inhabited by a people called the Medes, who were the dominant tribe. They overthrew the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC in alliance with Babylonia; and were eventually conquered by the Persians in 550 BC.
In some texts media is rendered as Madai, Medes, Media, and Mede. We first hear of this people in the Assyrian cuneiform records, under the name of Amada, about B.C. 840. They appear to have been a branch of the Aryans, who came from the east bank of the Indus River, and were probably the predominant race for a while in the Mesopotamian valley. They consisted for three or four centuries of a number of tribes who at length were brought under the Assyrian yoke. From this subjection they formed themselves into an empire under Cyaxares. This monarch entered into an alliance with the king of Babylon, and invaded Assyria, putting an end to the Assyrian monarchy. Media now rose to a place of great power, vastly extending its boundaries. But it did not long exist as an independent kingdom. It rose with Cyaxares but during the reign of his son and successor, the Persians waged war against the Medes and conquered them, the two nations being united under Cyrus the Great. The "cities of the Medes" are first mentioned in connection with the deportation of the Israelites on the destruction of Samaria. Soon afterwards Isaiah speaks of the part taken by the Medes in the destruction of Babylon. Daniel gives an account of the reign of Darius the Mede, who was made viceroy by Cyrus. The decree of Cyrus, Ezra informs us, was found in "the palace that is in the province of the Medes," Achmetha or Ecbatana of the Greeks is the only Median city mentioned in Scripture.
The skill and art of communication through written documents carried by an intermediary from one person or a location to another most likely date back to the creation and development of writing. The Egyptians appear to be the first to use couriers to deliver messages and use messengers to deliver their decrees in the various territories of the country around 2400 BC. The introduction of the formal postal systems, however, occurred much later. On the basis of information reported by the Greek historian Herodotus, the first regular postal service in the world was established in 6th century BC during the reign of the first king of the Achaemenids, Cyrus the Great.
Herodotus described the system in this way: "It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed". Herodotus also praised the swift courier posts of ancient Persian Empire. In fact, the service used the system of relay messengers who were riding horses and carrying mails by day and night; The riders would stop at regularly placed Post Offices or Post Houses to get a fresh horse or to pass on their packets of dispatches to another messenger for the remainder of the distance. The relay stations were built at a distance where a horse could run without resting or feeding.
Between 521 BC and 486 BC another king, Darius the Great, was in power and he recognized the importance of communication as the first need for the rule of his vast Empire. He had thousands of kilometers of roads built to facilitate the delivery of mails throughout the Persian Empire. One of the most significant achievements of the his administration was the establishment of the Imperial Highway or the Royal Road. This road, at the beginning used exclusively by the royal messengers, eventually developed into the main communication nerve of the Empire. Major trade routes were connected to the Royal Road and it might have extended eastwards as well. The Mail Carriers equipped with horse-drawn wagons were the immediate users.
Barid was established by Darius in order to facilitate the communication between the central government and the local authorities. This communication service was covering the Persian Empire from Europe, Asia Minor, and Egypt to Babylon, Aden, and Arabia to Indian Ocean. All those local authorities had the duty of providing fresh horses and amenities for the Barid members. The Barid also became the bearer of information obtained all over the Empire, including price information for various tradable goods. It should be noted that Barid was a term not given only to the Postal Services during DG, but it was also a Persian term for both post-person and postmaster. Arabs also use up the Persian term of Barid to the modern times as the original term for the Post and also as a length measurement: A Barid equals amounts to 24 kilometers.
Globally, most mail was still being transported the same way until the late 18th century. The economic growth in Britain during the 18 th century encouraged a demand for better mail services and in 1784 stagecoaches began carrying mail. The system remained the same till the postage stamp was issued.
We get the term "mail system," c.1500, from post on notion of riders and horses posted at intervals along a route to speed mail in relays, from middle French poste (late 15c.). The verb meaning "to send through the postal system" is recorded from 1837. Post also means the place when on duty from poste the place where one is stationed or a station post for horses from Latin posto "post, station," from *postum, from positum "to place, to put". Earliest sense in English was military; meaning "job, position" is attested 1690s. The figurative sense of "carrying" by post horses is also behind the verb in bookkeeping (1620s) meaning "to transfer from a day book to a formal account." It also refers to an upright timber such as a pillar or doorpost from pastas "porch in front of a house, colonnade," The verb meaning "to affix (a paper, etc.) to a post" in a public place is first recorded 1650.
Mail refers to "post, letters," c.1200, as carried in "a traveling bag," from old French male "wallet, bag," from Frank. *malha, from Germanic *malho- (malaha "wallet, bag," male "bag"), from *molko- "skin, bag." Sense extension to "letters and parcels" (18c.) is via "bag full of letter" (1650s) or "person or vehicle who carries postal matter" (1650s). In 19c. England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches were post. Sense of "personal batch of letters" is from 1844.
Mail was also used for "metal ring armor," early 14c., from old French maille "link of mail, mesh of net," from Latin macula "mesh in a net."
News news from the late 14c., plural of new "new thing," from the adjective new (adj.), after the French nouvelles, used in Bible translations to render nova "news," literally "new things." Sometimes still regarded as plural, 17c.-19c. Meaning "tidings" is early 15c. It refers to the new information carried by the post courier from all directions. Possibly an acronym of North East West South, as in every direction.
Therefore because the country of Media was the first to officially convey information via letters through a system the word media became the default term for doing so and the method. Including every new system of delivering information through time. The postal mail system being the first. Media is the plural of medium. Usually it is the means of communication such as "newspapers, radio, TV, etc." that reach or influence people in large numbers. Providing the public with news, entertainment, etc., usually along with advertising. 1927, perhaps abstracted from mass media (1923, a technical term in advertising), It also pertains people who work in the media.
Medium is something such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.1580s, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from L. medium, from neut. of adj. medius (see medial). Meaning "intermediate agency, channel or method of communication". That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." The natural habitat of an organism or surrounding objects, conditions, or influences; environment Also one of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. A means of transmission of a force or effect, the means of effecting, accomplishing, transmitting or conveying something.
Current Media
As a society we are inundated and overwhelmed daily with a flood of information from a wide array of sources. These sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The main sources of information for consumption, include the mainstream media, alternative media, academia and think tanks. Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. There are great advantages to having a country that protects your right to a free press. You can use any form of media to express your ideas and present your opinions to the public. The media is often considered the mouthpiece of modern culture.
The mainstream media is the most obvious in its inherent bias and manipulation. The mainstream media is owned directly by large multination al corporations, and through their boards of directors are connected with a plethora of other major global corporations and elite interests. A good example of these connections can be seen with the board of Time Warner. They own Time Magazine, HBO, Warner Bros., and CNN, among many others. The board of directors includes individuals past or presently affiliated with: the Council on Foreign Relations, the IMF, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Warburg Pincus, Phillip and AMR Corporation, among many others.
The major philanthropic foundations in the United States often use their enormous wealth to co-opt voices of dissent and movements of resistance into channels that are safe for the powers that be. Examples of this include philanthropies like the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation providing immense financial and organizational support to Non-Governmental Organizations. Furthermore, the alternative media are often funded by these same foundations, which has the effect of influencing the direction of coverage as well as the stifling of critical analysis.
Two of the most “esteemed” sources of news in the U.S. are the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The New York Times has on its board people who are past or presently affiliated with: Schering-Plough International (pharmaceuticals), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chevron Corporation, Wesco Financial Corporation, Kohlberg & Company, The Charles Schwab Corporation, eBay Inc., Xerox, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly & Company, among others. Hardly a bastion of impartiality.
The Washington Post, which has on its board: Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Warren Buffett, billionaire financial investor, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; and individuals associated with (past or presently): the Coca-Cola Company, New York University, Conservation International, the Council on Foreign Relations, Xerox, Catalyst, Johnson & Johnson, Target Corporation, RAND Corporation, General Motors, and the Business Council, among others.
It is also important to address how the mainstream media is intertwined, often covertly and secretly, with the government. Carl Bernstein, one of the Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate scandal, revealed there were over 400 American journalists who had “secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.The use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering." Among organizations which cooperated with the CIA were "ABC, NBC, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune." According to CIA officials the most valuable associations have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. The CIA even ran a training program to teach some of its agents to be journalists, who were then placed in major news organizations with help from management.
In 2008, it was reported that the Pentagon ran a major propaganda campaign by using retired Generals and former Pentagon officials to present a good picture of the administration’s war-time policies. These officials, presented as “military analysts”, regurgitate government talking points and often sit on the boards of military contractors, thus having a vested interest in the subjects they are to “analyze.”
The US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg had at one time planted stories in the U.S. media supporting the Reagan Administration's Central America policies, which was described by the Miami Herald as a “vast psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory.” These Army PSYOP officers also worked at National Public Radio (NPR). The US military has had a strong relationship with CNN.
Two groups that greatly influence media in the US and worldwide are little known to the public, They are in essence secret society whose operations and goals are mostly unknown. The first is called the Bohemian Grove which at one time was primarily a East Coast artistic, media, liberal arts group. Today they influence Hollywood/movies, music, print media, and advertising. They are known to have yearly gatherings in the Redwood forests of California at a private camp. Attended by big corporate and media executives as well as Presidents and other dignitaries. They feel media has a magical property they can use to influence and manipulate people. They are an occult group, even worshiping a evil God mentioned in the Bible. Interestingly one of a tribes of ancient Media were the Magi known as magicians, astrologers, and wizards. Basically a magical media.
The second group is called the Bildeburg Group a multinational group. Primarily attended by government officials and executives from mostly newspaper and TV news network executives, as well as strangely from oil and finance. They are a kind of think tank and a place to develop and discuss international policies to decide how they shape what is happening. Many believe they dictate behind the scenes and override other groups and policy makers.
History of Media
The first newspaper in America was released in Boston in 1690. Since the beginning of printed material, news and announcements have been brought into the public eye through the use of a newspaper. The power of the press (newspapers) is huge and can be readily used to sway public opinion. Newsprint has the ability to change public opinion and can, without careful monitoring, report false information that is against the public good. When reporters and their newspapers do not act responsibly, society as a whole is in danger. However, when high quality and responsible news is reported, the public as a whole can become more educated and informed.
After newsprint radio came upon the scene and became part of every day life. Now news and advertising could be brought to the public, even to those that were illiterate. Radio changed the field of entertainment, providing content and data in a way that was before unheard of. Decades after radios invention, along came television. Now the public could watch the news for themselves and could be entertained by the pictures and actors. While television allowed for everyday entertainment in homes across the world, movies were also making a big hit. Screen actors became spokespersons for products being bought in grocery stores and department stores. These actors endorsed the products influencing the public to buy them.
Over time the media has evolved to the where the average citizen places trust in media spokespersons to provide them with all of the important information they need. With the advent of the internet, people now have access to news and information about almost any subject, at any hour of the day. Because of the public's trust, those in the media have a responsibility to report things in a truthful manner and not become the machine of those that would harm or hurt our world. The public also must remember that people create the media. This means that facts should be independently research, multiple media sources should be consulted, and the truth should be sought from multiple mediums. New media opens up new opportunities for learning, knowledge and enrichment.
