The coming of the media is always accompanied by the threat of impending armed intervention or humanitarian aid campaigns. Increasingly, disaster areas will refuse access to the media in order to avoid the catastrophic arrival of international aid organizations. If, on the other hand, the battle scenes and environmental calamities do get extensive coverage, the information offered attains such a complex scale that even the most sympathetic of citizens find it impossible to keep up. Media have no civilizing impact on either those in the pictures or the viewers. If the barbarians refuse to see media as multipliers of complexity, but instead as archives full of evidence, they proceed to treat the question of media in their own way - by shooting as many media carriers as possible.
Every dead journalist is a victory in the media war.
On the other hand, the media are thought to corrupt the people and incite them to violence, satanism, ecocide and cultural devastation. Once again, the relationship between cause and effect is completely forgotten. The practice of relativism has led to a rampant revaluation of values. The moral terror of other people's consciences is given free play to frustrate the evil schemes of one's fellow humans, from incest, fraud, corruption, child pornography, drug abuse, and serial killings to car theft, adultery, nationalism, and racist remarks. The media are credited with the power of turning people into either barbarians or civilized participants.