Near the end of the heavily media driven Election 2016, mainstream nationwide information outlets and small local outlets alike have been always updating us with information about Clinton and Trump. We depend on nepotism, cronyism, which has been shepherded by a cabal of a motley crew of thugs posing as our authorities and other people which are supposedly being put in position of nationwide social obligations are ignorant, inept, dysfunctional, unknowing, conceited, and pilfering upon the general public coffers; corruption is rampant; rape and murder are power in our communities; Alcoholism is a pandemic illness; drug abuse and proliferation has turning into the new regular in our midst; church buildings are fleecing their parishioners; the a lot touted and oft abused concept of Ubuntu is no more existent in our divided and shattered African collectives.

Robert McChesney says: The decline of journalism and the hypercommercialization of tradition; i.e., the antidemocratic method by which communication coverage making has been and is carried out within the United States and globally(globalization) and the best way the web is being incorporated into the heart of the corporate communication system, is decidedly undermining the democratic potential envisioned by its founders”.

What these media restrictions restricted most was the power of South Africans and the World to know the complete story of events that lay behind the editorials of South Africa as dictated by the Apartheid State legislature, capital and military pursuits, by means of coercion of Africans.

McLuhan’s “The medium is the message” means the ostensible content of all electronic media is insignificant; it is the medium itself that has the better affect on the surroundings, a reality bolstered by the now medically undeniable fact that the technologies we use on a regular basis start, after some time, to alter the best way our brains work, and therefore the way we expertise our world.

By means of media corresponding to the phone, television and more not too long ago the private computer and the ‘Web’, we are more and more linked together across the globe and this has enabled us to attach with individuals on the other side of the world as shortly as it takes us to contact and converse with those who inhabit the same physical house (i.e the those that live in the identical village).