Oh, come on! The objective information is provided, it isn't all propaganda. For example, in the runup to Bush's Iraq invasion, he kept making claims about WMD while the UN weapons inspectors were telling about what they were finding, as were others who operated on the ground in Iraq. So, while the MSM overall supported the Bush narrative, at least to the point of arguing the "what if" point, it was also giving objective evidence against it.
I had arguments about this with friends who chose to disregard the UN and foreign journalist reports for their own reasons. Propaganda works when you have a compliant audience and IMO, the American public is absolutely uncritical, its our fault that we are in this mess. Americans are into accepting conspiracy theories over having to do the critical thinking and rational assessment required to be objectively informed.
We see what's happening but chose to not due the difficult work of getting to the objective truth because, IMO, we're too lazy.
Oh, come on! The objective information is provided, it isn't all propaganda. For example, in the runup to Bush's Iraq invasion, he kept making claims about WMD while the UN weapons inspectors were telling about what they were finding, as were others who operated on the ground in Iraq. So, while the MSM overall supported the Bush narrative, at least to the point of arguing the "what if" point, it was also giving objective evidence against it.
I had arguments about this with friends who chose to disregard the UN and foreign journalist reports for their own reasons. Propaganda works when you have a compliant audience and IMO, the American public is absolutely uncritical, its our fault that we are in this mess. Americans are into accepting conspiracy theories over having to do the critical thinking and rational assessment required to be objectively informed.
We see what's happening but chose to not due the difficult work of getting to the objective truth because, IMO, we're too lazy.