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[–]bablarb 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for posting. A lot of people don't know what's happened at cnn since 2012

[–]lil_peter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the cable news is cia funded lol.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm only half-way through this and pretty much knew all of this already, but seeing it from the insider's perspective and seeing all these people comply even though they question it themselves is terrifying.. And seeing the manipulation and power that's held over some people..

As a country, we do this ourselves/are victims of this too, just on a larger scale.. But in such a small environment where you're faced with this daily? It must be so stressful if you feel one way but have to literally appear, speak and think another way on the fly.

And just the implications of the MSM pushing propaganda finally being solidified with recordings, like shit, what's free about this? Who, what, when, where, why and how?

[–]Justin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Trump could always try not being a complete asshole

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So that justifies a major mainstream media organ, guardians of our republic, going on a spree and reporting fake news to satisfy the hateful animus of its president?

Journalists tell us they're better than that. That they're honest and true and would never lie. And yet we have 100% incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.

I look at the front page of CNN and half the time it's all opinion, calling itself news. Or speculation about what so-and-so "could do" or a move that "signals an intent to." This is not news, designed to inform you about what just happened or is happening. If the goal is to shape your opinion rather than to inform you of facts...that's propaganda, and that's 90% of all TV and newspaper "reporting." And that's all controlled by a handful of mega-corps, who all have similar values and interests.

It's also important to remember that the people doing the reporting are not experts, and are not that smart. Journalism school is a not a rigorous, intellectually challenging endeavor. It's a bunch of not hideous looking people with 110 IQs pretending they can understand and explain the stuff 130+ IQ scientists, engineers, bankers and political manipulators are doing. With lots of phony trappings of authority, like fancy desks and suits, spinning globe computer animations, and pretentious names like "Guardian," "Intelligencer," "Observer" or "Standard," designed to present the image of omniscience. It's all a fraud, and you will generally come out of an hour of watching a TV news broadcast knowing more wrong things than you did before you started.