Do you feel most of US news is propagandized and that it is censored as to what they tell us or do you think?

Question

we are told the real truth most of the time?

Do you have any reasons or things to back up your opinion?

If you believe we get a lot of propaganda, 1. why is this so, 2. does it bother you and 3. what can we do about it?

Do answer this question fully. Thank you.

Answer 1

I do believe that we get a lot of propaganda in the US and we rarely think we are being propagandized but associate that with other countries.

I think there is a film called "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" that talks about the corporations in power and of much of the news being heavily edited and much of seen as unable to print..when you have a few big conglomerates owning multiple news outlets (TV, cable, print, radio) then it becomes easy to control what people know and put your slants on it, Information is power so they say and if we are making decisions on altered or incomplete facts, how can we make good decisions.

Corporate power is the main problem..this country is now of, for, and by the corporations in reality not the people that is just an ideal statement from the past but laws are not generally passed for the good of the people but for the good of a few people (rich or corporations). We certainly have not evolved but declined as a species in doing evil.

It is done so that the goals of those at the top get met more easily. It bothers me a lot. and what I do is try to turn off the TV and reduce the amount of news I get and that I do get I get from the Internet or alternate news sources.

Answer 2

Janie is on the right track...the film she's talking about is called MANUFACTURING CONSENT, and it is based on Noam Chomsky's work.

The main aim of the media is to maintain good consumers instead of good citizens...to be a citizen you need to participate in the affairs of your nation and in policy making, which in all likelihood means more equality in distribution of wealth...now this is a no! no! in American plutocracy and corporate capitalism which runs under the pretext of democracy. I recently posed a question about medicare in US and just go and look at most answers I got...there's a lot of political illiteracy in US, in fact, it is sad, but the masses in US are well-known throughout the world as the most uninformed and uninterested people...well, for a democracy to function, you need proper and timely information instead of the constant entertainment you are hooked to as a nation. Most of the mainstream media is controlled by a small group of very wealthy people who cater to their own class, and shape the minds of the masses for their own benefit...Zionist Jews also have considerable influence on Western media, hence the atrocities by Israel is misrepresented. The problem is that most people think they have 'free press'!

To begin with, people must become aware of how the media functions, what its real aims are, and then people can look for other sources of independent news...but then to do this is not easy for people who have got used to soundbites, and aren't capable of focussing on anything that requires the use of grey cells for too long!