Americans have little faith in so-called major media news and information, a collective lying machine by any standard, suppressing what’s most important to report, substituting managed news misinformation rubbish.
Gallup and other polls show Americans’ trust in mass media around an all-time low.
A new American Press Institute (API) report said around half of respondents surveyed expressed “some confidence” in media reporting, over 40% virtually none, API saying:
“Over the last two decades, research shows the public has grown increasingly skeptical of the news industry.”
“The study reaffirms that consumers do value broad concepts of trust like fairness, balance, accuracy, and completeness. At least two-thirds of Americans cite each of these four general principles as very important to them.”
Social media changed how many Americans get news and information. Only 12% trust what they get.
TV news combines travesty and farce. Why anyone wastes time watching they’ll have to explain. Truth is a scarce commodity, in times of war the first casualty.
Media giants are our national thought control police, manipulating our minds, programming our thoughts, instilling beliefs, diverting our attention from what matters most, destroying a free marketplace of ideas essential to a healthy democracy—entirely absent in America and other Western societies.
Instead of news and views to trust, the public is fed lies, damn lies and Big Lies—along with demagoguery, scandal, gossip, sleaze and war-mongering.
The percent of Americans with great trust in major media is less than one in ten. Believers should be asked to explain why they trust a notorious lying machine.
The best way to defeat media scoundrels is tune them out, stopping buying their publications.
Trust only reliable alternative sources, independent ones—free from dirty corporate money and handouts from their foundations.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.” Visit his blog at sjlendman.blogspot.com . Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.
Yes, I agree the mass media is so under-rated in its effect on people that it is a none subject. Hidden as it has merged with the air we breathe, a mediatised biosphere of hate and death. It is anti-human. And in the hands of those who detest mass-man. It is a power tool of control. The programming is aligned with that of both corporate and political power. Submerged in the web of mass culture it becomes hard to think anything other than what you are in and unfortunately will or have already become. In a time gone by did man make a society to fit man, now it happens the other way. Through mass culture you can create a people to fit any kind of monstrosity society a mind can think up. We no longer want informed folks, but rather folks who are oblivious to any notion that they are our principal enemy.