Newspapers, news radio and TV news largely just “repost” content sourced from press releases now. They don’t have investigative reporters any more, they’re 1) too expensive and 2) threatened with jail if they reveal unfavorable truths.
It would be a death sentence for a news organization’s “reporters” to be disinvited to “press briefings,” so of course there are no unpleasant questions ever asked.
Never have so many people had so much access to so much information yet been so woefully misinformed.
We know next to nothing about the world. Our grandparents knew no less that do we.
What’s the difference? Our grandparents didn’t live in a sea of lies. We, on the other hand, are SATURATED with lies, we soak in them every waking moment.
We THINK we know what Putin intends, what the Syrian rebels are doing, the actions and policies of our rulers, etc., etc., when in fact we know ONLY that which we’re told.
We’d be better off to intentionally turn off the news feeds and live in conscious ignorance than now, where our brains are marinated in lie after lie after lie until we simply pick the lie that most mirrors our preexisting biases.
dc.sunsets
September 19, 2014 9:27 am
Belief comes first.
Belief forms the filter through which ALL DATA to which we are exposed must pass before our minds will examine it.
This is why it is impossible to debate someone and change their mind. The data you offer that contradicts their premises simply does not pass through the filter, and vice versa.
As we work our way through this social mood collapse, those filters are becoming ever less permeable. People’s attitudes are HARDENING, and as the anger quotient rises, Bad Things become more likely to occur.
Time to think small, think invisible.
Dutchman
September 19, 2014 9:38 am
Here in Minneapolis (that has been run by Deomrats for the last 35 yrs) there is the Minneapolis Star / Tribune. Better known as the Minneapolis Red Star.
The ‘reporting’ consists of printing press releases from the Demorat party, human interest stories, and AP articles. They simply don’t print anything they disagree with.
Lest we forget, Hurst’s yellow journalist rags helped push the American public to support the Spanish-American War (reminds me of today’s Neocons.)
The Gallup survey informs ME that people are polarizing in their beliefs, and as that happens it is inevitable that the Mass Media will carry more stories that conflict with the beliefs of those polled.
“Trust” will decline as polarization rises, it has nothing to do with the pablum, fluff and outright lies published by the MSM, which has always rated a ZERO on the trust scale.
Stucky
September 19, 2014 10:35 am
The lapdog media wouldn’t be possible without lapdog consumers.
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Get ’em indoctrinated early, parents!
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dc.sunsets
September 19, 2014 10:50 am
Stucky, the last picture in your comment is key.
I guarantee you that the brains of children raised on TV are morphologically and functionally different from brains of children raised in the absence of TV.
Typical 4th graders no longer can sit still and keep their mouths shut for more than a few seconds. They largely exhibit absolutely ZERO self-control.
I strongly suspect that TV exposure is at least 50% of the cause (the other 50% is that their parents were also raised by the TV, and it is increasingly understood within the study of epigenetics that environmental variables switch on or off genes, causing acquired traits to actually be passed along to offspring, something once derided as Lamarckian silliness.)
Kids are getting more impulsive and less intelligent because their bovine parents were couch potatoes watching the Home Shopping Network.
How can it be otherwise?
Newspapers, news radio and TV news largely just “repost” content sourced from press releases now. They don’t have investigative reporters any more, they’re 1) too expensive and 2) threatened with jail if they reveal unfavorable truths.
It would be a death sentence for a news organization’s “reporters” to be disinvited to “press briefings,” so of course there are no unpleasant questions ever asked.
Never have so many people had so much access to so much information yet been so woefully misinformed.
We know next to nothing about the world. Our grandparents knew no less that do we.
What’s the difference? Our grandparents didn’t live in a sea of lies. We, on the other hand, are SATURATED with lies, we soak in them every waking moment.
We THINK we know what Putin intends, what the Syrian rebels are doing, the actions and policies of our rulers, etc., etc., when in fact we know ONLY that which we’re told.
We’d be better off to intentionally turn off the news feeds and live in conscious ignorance than now, where our brains are marinated in lie after lie after lie until we simply pick the lie that most mirrors our preexisting biases.
Belief comes first.
Belief forms the filter through which ALL DATA to which we are exposed must pass before our minds will examine it.
This is why it is impossible to debate someone and change their mind. The data you offer that contradicts their premises simply does not pass through the filter, and vice versa.
As we work our way through this social mood collapse, those filters are becoming ever less permeable. People’s attitudes are HARDENING, and as the anger quotient rises, Bad Things become more likely to occur.
Time to think small, think invisible.
Here in Minneapolis (that has been run by Deomrats for the last 35 yrs) there is the Minneapolis Star / Tribune. Better known as the Minneapolis Red Star.
The ‘reporting’ consists of printing press releases from the Demorat party, human interest stories, and AP articles. They simply don’t print anything they disagree with.
Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low
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@ Thinker,
Trust is subjective.
Lest we forget, Hurst’s yellow journalist rags helped push the American public to support the Spanish-American War (reminds me of today’s Neocons.)
The Gallup survey informs ME that people are polarizing in their beliefs, and as that happens it is inevitable that the Mass Media will carry more stories that conflict with the beliefs of those polled.
“Trust” will decline as polarization rises, it has nothing to do with the pablum, fluff and outright lies published by the MSM, which has always rated a ZERO on the trust scale.
The lapdog media wouldn’t be possible without lapdog consumers.
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Get ’em indoctrinated early, parents!
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Stucky, the last picture in your comment is key.
I guarantee you that the brains of children raised on TV are morphologically and functionally different from brains of children raised in the absence of TV.
Typical 4th graders no longer can sit still and keep their mouths shut for more than a few seconds. They largely exhibit absolutely ZERO self-control.
I strongly suspect that TV exposure is at least 50% of the cause (the other 50% is that their parents were also raised by the TV, and it is increasingly understood within the study of epigenetics that environmental variables switch on or off genes, causing acquired traits to actually be passed along to offspring, something once derided as Lamarckian silliness.)
Kids are getting more impulsive and less intelligent because their bovine parents were couch potatoes watching the Home Shopping Network.