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More and more I find myself wondering if the news is really being honest with the American people.
If you choose to dive down that rabbit hole, you'll have plenty of company.
There are lots of people who believe the whole frigging cosmos revolves around them, and the only things that are true is whatever they happen to personally see and experience. It's a sort of solipsistic mindset many people toy with in their early teens, but most grow out of it after reality smacks them upside the head a few times.
There are also a lot of people who are incapable of understanding the world we live in, and they deal with their distressing confusion by refusng to accept the reality of anything they don't understand. Since such people are generally pretty dim, that includes most things.
And then there are those who are heavily invested in a particular paradigm and experience painful cognitive dissonance when they're presented with demonstrable facts that conflict with their world-view. When that happens, we have a choice of either accepting our paradigm was wrong and altering it to reflect reality, or we can dig in to defend our beliefs and dismiss the facts as "fake news". The latter is easier for most people, particularly in a culture where there's a pervasive delusion that everyone's opinion has equal validity.
Well I mean you're kind of saying that it's immature or delusional to not accept TV news as unquestionable fact. They lie in the news all the time, or twist facts to fit a certain veiwpoint that they want to push on people.
In my experience people who follow politics tend to just parrot the news. It's like they open a box of pre-recorded things they're supposed to be arguing about.
I don’t think they’re necessarily lying, but they do present the news in a biased way
The news isn't there to preach the truth to the world. The news is a business, and just like other businesses they need customers. Sometimes they need to twist things, lie, make things seem more exiting, no one wants to watch the truth.
The most important thing to them is to keep you watching
I’m British but I don’t believe our news, especially with the mass hysteria they’ve created over corona virus. It makes me sad to see how Britain have gone from being the most powerful country in the world to being a pathetic joke who are so weak that we are going to hide inside our houses until the end of next year, treating the flu like fucking world war 2.
I notice the narrative ALWAYS comes first. Whether its Fox news or CNN the bias is extreme.
News is a powerful propaganda tool. It's not about educating you or making sure you're exposed to the most accurate information, it's about manipulating your opinion to be what they want it to be. Most political arguments I hear between people are basically just two people parroting the things that their preferred news sources tell them.
With this whole quarantine situation I started off with a "Not everything's a conspiracy" mindset, but the longer this goes on the harder it is to honestly believe there isn't some kind of ulterior motive in all of this. The amount of political garbage they're tying in to this plus the criminal level of media fear mongering is just too much.
The news is only ever the version of events they want you to believe or that will sell the most papers. There is I am sure a few elements of truth if you dig deep enough. But personally I would never rely on a news report if I wanted to know what really happened