It's not the media's job to "inform" people. The example about nearly 70% of people believing that Saddam Hussein had attacked us on 9/11 is laughable. If that stat is true (which I doubt), it's the uninformed American population that's the problem. The problems with the media and a lack of facts are a SYMPTOM. If people didn't eat that stuff up (as a sort of pseudo-entertainment) then the media executives would be forced to change their model.

People watch that garbage. That's the problem.

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>> ^deedub81:
It's not the media's job to "inform" people. The example about nearly 70% of people believing that Saddam Hussein had attacked us on 9/11 is laughable. If that stat is true (which I doubt), it's the uninformed American population that's the problem.

It seems like you missed the main point. Or that you're being willfully contentious to support your bias.

The point here is that the uninformed population IS the problem. And the only institution that can inform the population, that has a DUTY to inform the population, the vairous news media, is failing in their job. Hence...the uninformed populace.

I can't imagine how you can possibly claim, or hope to support, your position that it's not the job of the news outlets to inform the people. That's just patently absurd. But it does appear that the majority of news sources either agree with you or, at the very least, place that responsiblity low on their list of priorities. It hasn't always been that way though. There was a time when the presentation of fact was considered a sacred duty. Something's broken now though and there's only speculation on what the cause is or what the solution should be.

@TheFreak Well said.

Willful contention or righteous indignation and frustration fuels my personal disgust with "so-called" news and "alleged" reporting of "facts." IF the big 3 from circa 1955 was truthfully and without bias reporting world events and delivering them to owners of televisions and radios then I am a woman,trapped in a child's body who speaks five dead languages fluently.

If major media outlets are not a pathetic informational aberration developed as it has to deliver DISinformation and propaganda which supports the agendas of her financiers and sponsors, then the mixture of inert gasses drawn into sentient lungs from the atmosphere circa 1350 was much more poisonous than it will be in 2019.

Because in 2020, ginourmous air scrubbers built by children in 4rth world countries will purify the atmosphere to Precambrian quality!

deedub81? Spot-on. If a collective boycott of their bullshit happened overnight, I challenge you that they would NOT adjust their mission of bullshit to accommodate the newly-awakened masses, they would not be ALLOWED to continue in any capacity.

What are the first institutions secured during a military coup? Presidential palace and communications outlets. (TV and Radio, internet). Best way to get cattle to do your bidding is to fill their heads with bullshit designed to CONTROL them, not to inform them.


OH....and I only voted Stink (Muckrack) Uruguay and his Smugly Smugstein-ass up because our ol' pal farhad2000 popped-up on the radar after extended hiatus-Howdy pardner!

GCE

Yes. The problem isn't the food, its that the people are fat. The fact they are only served bacon grease and deep fried butter is a symptom...I'm not sure I follow this logic.

I mean, yeah ok, with enough time and effort you can be your own journalist. There is a wealth of information readily available...all you have to do is sift though it. Not surprisingly though not everybody has/is willing to invest their time to inform themselves and I don't really think we should expect everybody to either. Ofc, you have to make a certain effort or its just willful ignorance, but the mainstream media should exist to make this process more effortless...instead its more of an obstruction.

Actually the number was closer to 47%, ( http://atlanticreview.org/archives/726-More-Americans-Believe-that-Saddam-Was-Directly-Involved-in-911.html ) that is less than 70% to be sure, and its unfortunate that Cenk gets this number wrong. I cant find the numbers now, but he may have been mistaking it for the republican % at the time. At any rate, it is still an insanely high number, and even after all the debunking of this claim, a sizable number still believed it in 2007. Even tho Cenk had the number wrong, his point still stands, when nearly half the country get such a well-established, crucially important, and highly relevant (at the time) fact so completely wrong, something is wrong. And if your claim is that the news media has no responsibility, whats the point of having them in the first place? They could might as well have reported that a couple of penguins flew into the towers.

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