The Gambler By Paolo Bacigalupi

As I read the short story, The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi, I’m shown a world in which the news and media, and those who run the media and news corporations, do anything in their power to keep the masses from finding out the bad things in their world, and in doing so they make it worst.
The Gambler sheds light on the issue of the control those who run the media have over the world. Controllers of media had the potential choose to ignore major happenings in the world, and when given the decision in The Gambler, those controller elected to suffocate their readers with positive news stories, and create a population ignorant to the worldly disasters like the one Ong, the main character, had to endure.
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