The Mainstream Media Is Losing the Trust of America's Youth by Astounding Numbers

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[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The monopolies squeezed all the media under 5 or 6 mega corporations, everything else is overflow alt-media spilling out from between their fat sweaty knuckles.

This ain't your granddad's brainwashing...

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What I wonder is how privy the media is to this. For example, I wondered if during the 2016 election if a big part of Trump getting elected was people simply doing the opposite of what the media tells them. Reverse psychology.

If the media knew no one trusted them, then they can just say "Trump is a bad man" on loop 24/7 and then out of pure spite a significant fraction of the public will support him. They figure "the corrupt media hates him so he must be doing something right". However this might be the intended reaction... perhaps this is too next-level to be intentional, but I do wonder...

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

In this case the Hillary camp wanted Trump as their opponent, so the media was following orders.

She got exactly what she asked for.

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

Also, the American people are the most polled population on the planet. Business interests have to know what people think, so they can make informed propaganda decisions.

Business interests typically keep these private, and prevent the public from accessing them. In rare instances they are leaked.

For example: The Pentagon Papers revealed that the military leadership was way more pessimistic about the war than the press or the public.

This is part of the impetus for outrage, because the war was going far worse than the public had even imagined.

The story about the cantankerous press, was a myth. They reported the war exactly as they were instructed.