What makes Americans so gullible to believe the media?

Question

Now the new comeback to anything which took your brain , in what is called "critical thinking" is Oh! that is just a "Conspiracy Theory."
Is it true or not??? What are the facts???

Answer 1

Here is some critical thinking for you...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7501020220921158523

I like Reynolds foil best. I find it keeps the G-men at bay but is still fashionable. What brand do you use?

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin said "if you tell a lie long enough soon enough most people will believe it." There's a whole lot of truth to that statement. Most Americans think the United States is a free nation.

In 1913, the Congress passed legislation that gave control of US monetary policy to a private corporation. What's even more peculiar about this fact is that it was passed by the Demonrats the so-called Party of the People. This same privately owned corporation also controls, by owning the majority stock, most of mainstream media including CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, network radio, 1,000's of newspapers and magazines and many websites. This explains the liberal slant to what some people still naively call the news.

Feel free to pass this along before what you think America is has gone by the wayside.

Answer 3

You are not in the critical thinking area . Your into brainstorming. And after brainstorming you have to decide which ideas are so far fetched that they cshould be thrown away unless rekindled by some actual facts. A Conspiracy Theory is the one who needs all the facts. In order tom prove it to the rest of us. It is a conspiracy because it needs so many working parts. The more parts it needs the more the chance it is not a conspiracy.

Answer 4

I don't know what you're talking about, but if you are "critically thinking" about an event you claim was covered up by the media, then it is a conspiracy. Thus, you are theorizing about a conspiracy.

Making it a conspiracy theory.

That's not a bad thing, I'm a Kennedy assassination "conspiracy theorist", but don't assume you're right and everyone else is wrong because you have a theory, conspiracy or otherwise. You're just a... conspiracy theorist. (Ta-Dah)

Answer 5

You mean like this?:

"Those planes crashing into the World Trade Center were a part of a conspiracy orchestrated by President Bush and a host of other nameless, unknown individuals. They wired the towers with explosives so the buildings would collapse when President Bush’s co-conspirators crashed the planes, killing over 3,000 innocent American civilians. No plane ever hit the Pentagon—that was a missile fired by our own forces."

Conspiracy theorists are funny.

Answer 6

The good news is that the trend is for the large liberal bedwetting moonbat biased papers is declining in viewers and going broke.


The liberal biased enabling media is the problem.

They refuse to cover negative news about liberal bedwetting moonbats and refuse to cover positive news about conservatives.


Liberals are unable to win in the market place of ideas. Liberals can't win or be successful without having to cheat.

Liberals want to shut down free speech that the internet and talk radio provide.

Liberals are the new fascists.

Liberals suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Its real and it's incurable.

When stricken with this incurable disease, liberals minds warp into anti-American terrorist supporting mean spirited bigoted hunks of quivering flesh with an appetite to appear in front of a camera somewhere.

Liberals would gladly sacrifice millions of lives abroad and here at home in they derranged attempt to discredit President Bush.

Answer 7

I got the main question...the other stuff....I don't know what you're talking about. Americans are gullible because all the news program have funding from the U.S. government, Fox has somethinig like $600 million, and funding from the government goes up and down depending on what they say.

So NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, even CNN has things to lose by protraying news that would make the White House look bad, and if that's all you see in the news, and all your news outlets tell you the same things.....well then you tend to believe it.

Answer 8

Dan...STOP IT! You sound RET AW DED!
Americans are not the first nor will they be the last to fall victim to media propaganda. Each nation on planet earth has it's own machine spinning it's own madness. You know why Dan? Because it works. Ask the Jews in Europe post WW1 about that. Or if that is not suitable, how about the Apartheid system in South Africa? Just a few of hundreds or more examples for ya..
How about issues with race, religion, and all the wars started from either one in any nation? Do you think media and propaganda have nothing to do with that. In America, media teaches complacency AND hate to everyone. They teach to mix races, and then teach it's wrong. Small subtle mixed messages after a lifetime may lead to mass confusion in any culture..You are simply ignorant if you believe otherwise...How have you been brainwashed today? I see you generalizing and sending a message of propaganda..Did you think of that yourself? Or did you hear it concisely or subconsciously through your media outlets?

Dan...are you trying to be mean?

Answer 9

The Media is run by the reps. and they fear anyone thinking on their own, because then they will realize that they can, and not everything they have been told is true or right. So they fight back by branding thinkers with words such as those to deter others from looking at their thoughts and maybe seeing some truth to them.. or at least things that need to thought about deeper, more questions asked.

Answer 10

Right, in the same spirit, why would we believe that the majority of Iraqi's want us to leave. Most of the insurgents are not iraqi. I left Iraq 6 months ago and the only iraqi's that seem to want us out are the "bad guys". I think everyone should engage in critical thinking and critical thinking also means listening to scientists on both sides of any argument and deciding for yourself. The vast majority of credible scientists agree it was exactly how you saw it on TV.

Answer 11

To get a more fair and balanced view of the world, I have to turn to 3 or 4 different stations because each one is slanted one way or the other. One may report a story that another won't, and the deliveries are totally different. They certainly try to mold the news to fit their audiences. Otherwise they'll lose ratings and advertising revenues. It's about the Big Bucks. Katie Couric has to get paid her millions, you know?! I'd much rather receive a more balanced view from the internet--drudge.com, cnn.com, yahoo! news, foreign sources, & US TODAY.