I'm trying to open my father's eyes to the lies of the mainstream media

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Watching CNN pander to BLM by saying that burning buildings and angry mobs looting stores and murdering people on the street was 'fiery but mostly peaceful' is a good start.

Watch the videos of the police letting in protesters into the building on Jan 6th then casually walking around like tourists within the rope barriers before leaving quietly. Also the fact that the media always refer to how right wing protesters had involvement in the fatalyon the day, but both that I know of were caused by the police themselves.

Endless amounts of information out there, but much of it is lost from YouTube and Google as it falls under misinformation and conspiracy, or fake news.

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That's often the angle I take but he sees Jan 6th as way worse, that it was an attempt to overthrow the government and the other thing was just blacks being blacks.

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Have you considered showing the previous protests where people stormed the building unarmed? This was of course not an isolated event and the left frequently do the same. The crowd was also unarmed and left without harming anyone or overthrowing the government. There's also AOC's statement which was found to be a lie, where she claimed her own security guard asking she leave to safety was a right winger trying to rape her.

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He knows, it's just in a different league to him.

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Hmm. One way could be to propose a simple test when trying to assess whether something is legitimate.

Firstly, is the test subject, in this case the media, a business for profit, gain or government funding? What do they have to gain? And what method would they use to manipulate gain, might they be trying to induce fear in the public, perhaps due to dwindling viewers?

Secondly, where does their funding even come from, for example, advertising revenue, and who is the major contributor? Pharmaceutical industries? Political lobbyists? The Clinton Foundation?

Realising that the media is only there to profit from people by selling 'ideas', not necessarily facts, exposes their lack of integrity as it is not material produced in good faith. Articles use words that exaggerate for emotive effect for this very purpose.