Concept in Definition ABC

The term manipulate has two meanings that are very dissimilar to each other and that is mainly determined by the connotation positive and negative to present as they are used. On the one hand, the word manipulate implies or refers to the ability that some people have to handle certain things, jobs, objects, especially those that are delicate or require precision for your functioning. So it is commonly said or thought that a watchmaker will be the right person to handle a old watch, whether it needs to be repaired or its value quoted if you want it to sell.

Obviously and as it could be easily appreciated, this is the meaning that the positive or neutral connotation has, if you like, of the term manipulate, inasmuch as it is charged or tinged with conception negative is the one that states that manipulate is also that subtle control that a person, group, company or organization can exercise about the rest of the people around them, making their opinions or statements regarding some

This last case occurs and has occurred throughout history as well, with much recurrence in the field of journalism, because Of course, journalism in many cases has emerged as a modeler of behaviors and opinions, so, in some moments historical weakness economic or ideological weakness, these have been the object of the manipulation of the information from the state or from some body or company that had enough power to do it.

For example during the regime Nazi and also during the period of time that some dictatorships lasted, the manipulation of information, was one of the most common and used practices to hide reality on the one hand and to disguise it on the other.