Category: Media and the press

Propaganda

No one actually believes the “news” from the woke media as anything other than propaganda, pushing a particular point of view that is highly questionable.

Gone are the days of Walter Cronkite’s “And that’s the way it is,” with unbiased news based on rational, good judgment.

That’s the way it is isn’t anymore.

I used to associate propaganda with communism in the Soviet Union. Now it is firmly entrenched in the US in the woke media. So don’t trust media in the US anymore. Trust your own common sense.

One thing you learn by the time you reach old age is that there is no limit to the number of fools. So there are many who still believe this woke propaganda.

Freedom of Speech

Liberal Media

No one believes the liberal media anymore. It’s not news but propaganda they deal in. In the 60s and 70s, the media had substantial credibility. That’s totally gone now…gone the illusion of even-handed and unbiased reporting, which seems like the height of foolish naivete. The Washington Post and New York Times are not worth one’s time.

Clueless

The Press and Truth

As recently as just 4 years ago, I used to associated the press in the US with truth. Now, I see that attitude as hopelessly naive. In my opinion, the press is more akin to propaganda than truth. It peddles dubious opinions bolstered by very questionable assumptions to argue for a particular point of view — that’s propaganda, not truth.

And in addition to this outright deception to argue in favor of a particular bias, there is also the additional element of sensationalism to engage the public in order to sell more newspapers, sort of speak.

So I would advise people not to go and search for truth from the press anymore. There is scant evidence there is any to be found there. But then, that’s not what people do with the media and the press today, that is, search for truth. Instead, they are all just searching for their own particular biases to have them confirmed.

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