It’s time to give credit where credit is due. The mainstream media is impressive. Their shift from journalism to propaganda was so subtle that roughly half the country missed it. They transitioned from focusing on facts to focusing on beliefs took decades, and almost no one can define when they actually crossed the line and stopped being objective journalists.
It started with analysts. They would present a complicated topic — maybe explaining a downturn in the stock market — and have a genuine expert try to bring the models and theory into layman’s terms. Eventually, the expert segments started to outnumber the fact sheets, and the masses ate it up.
When everything was about expert analysis, it was easy to mix in an opinion piece or two without anyone noticing. Suddenly, instead of an expert explaining an economic model, they were simply telling us that one system is better than another with no attempt to explain how or why. Since they were still mixing in real news, it was difficult to know when you couldn’t simply trust what you were being told.
Today, factual reporting is a minority. Even when a few truths do make it into a segment, it’s outnumbered by sheer biased manipulation. You can’t trust CNN on something as simple as reporting the GDP. Rather than telling us it’s growing faster or slower, they have to tell us that Trump is bad and that everything is his fault.
This economics analogy can only go far. Watch the propaganda in effect. See just how brazenly CNN lies about the simple fact that a Russian spy was arrested.