OPINION:
The movie “Citizen Kane” premiered in 1941, but its message is as valid and timeless today as it was then.
In the movie, a man named Charles Foster Kane builds an opera house for his talentless singer of a wife. The wife’s singing teacher says that as a singer she is hopeless and Kane’s career and reputation will be ruined if she sings publicly.
Kane explains to the teacher that he owns many newspapers so he need not worry. He knows full well that it the media controls public opinion and the destiny of those in the public eye.
Nothing has changed in the intervening 82 years, as the media continues to control public opinion and the destiny of those in power and in the public eye. He who controls the media controls the people.
JACK DUCKWORTH
Burke, Virginia
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