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[–]HiddenFox 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't trust these numbers!

...alright, jokes aside all the corporate news channels have been caught outright in telling lies. On top of that their continued and obvious stretching, downplaying and/or ignoring of facts have led to this distrust.

To me, it's that the news channels have become so comfortable and used to operating like this that they put little to no effort into trying to hide what they are doing.

It's like they think their audience is so stupid that they will belive anything they say. And because of this mindset they have gotten so lazy and complacent that now, even dumbest of us are seeing them for what they are.

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

The amount of lies we get from the from US media is the highest in world, so.....

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

Unfortunately, this doesn't address the primary problem. The ability the media still has - regardless of the fact we all know they are lying - is to set the agenda. In other words, while we know they're lying, we are still discussing the topics they want us to discuss in the framework in which they want us to discuss them. For example, when thousands of people a year are being killed in Yemen by the psycho Saudis, the media - simply by not discussing it - gets what they want. They have us arguing instead about whether men are women and women are men. A second example, Covid. Rather than discuss Ivermectin or HCQ, they put out smears of these medications and then completely eliminate them from the narrative. By not talking about them at all, they draw attention away from the fact that doctors and pharmacies are now terrified to prescribe two medications with impressive safety/efficacy records which have been approved for decades. We talk instead about what the powers want us to talk about. How many of us have been vaccinated? That's all that matters to them, and so that is all we argue about. Until we talk about the topics we generate, not those given to us by these assholes, we're still stuck on the hamster wheel.

[–]Feldheld 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is it really in free fall? My impression is that some people trust the media MORE than before especially after the COVID nuke while others trust the media less. Here in Europe trust in the media has risen massively.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Walter Cronkite has been dead a long time. Trustworthy quality news died with him.