Released in 1998 to critical and financial success, The Truman Show carries a legacy that, in hindsight, betells much about our future relations with the media. By being able to influence the media, one is wielding power that can affect lives not only locally, but around the globe; whether it is a single status on Facebook that alerts people of your upcoming trip to Cancun and leads to your house being robbed during your absence; whether it is a gossip magazine that prints falsehood about a celebrity contributing to a false representation of that celebrity's image; or whether it is something much greater like Orson Welles' infamous War Of The Worlds radio broadcast that could send the masses into hysteria. The media has a lot of power and, in our modern days, has begun to slip through our grasp and assume an identity of its own. The media is becoming a god.
