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Originally posted by rontuner:
I'm convinced that 'normal' wasn't working for them because of the propaganda media they choose to consume. There is a huge part of the country making choices based on fiction.
How do we fix that?!?
That is the question that will either save or continue to destroy democracy. Back in the old days, you turned on the TV and got your news from ABC, NBC, or CBS. But compared to today, those were just shades of gray. You read either Time or Newsweek, you subscribed to a Hearst newspaper or a non-Hearst newspaper. The WSJ wasn't a political organ. If you wanted conspiracy theories, mostly to do with UFOs and JFK's assassination, you bought a tabloid at the supermarket checkout.
But now it is easy... maybe far too easy... to consume media exclusively in your bubble. Fox "News" is mild compared to some of the carp out there.
One of my coworkers has all of his radio buttons programmed to the right-wing, the far right-wing, and the extreme right-wing talk radio stations. He talks about the Commie News Network (CNN) and National Proletariat Radio (npr). He parrots Alex Jones. And he recites the right-wing messages as if they are fact.
Reagan killed The Fairness Doctrine and thereby enabled an entire generation of propaganda... FOX, Breitbart, Sinclair, and so many others to take to the airwaves. And the more money you have (especially if your name is Murdoch, Mercer, or Sinclair-Smith), the more you can broadcast your propaganda with no accountability for how corrosive it is.
I have heard for four years that I-1's supporters love him because he "tells it like it is". No. He tells them what they want to hear, what they want to believe, with zero regard for the truthfulness of any of it.
I don't even know where to begin.
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