Media is like a mental neutron bomb. It blows the mind but leaves the other brain functions intact so people can still go to work, buy crap with the money they make, and continue to vote against their best interests until they die.
The media’s primary goal is to distract … and get us to react. We’re not getting enough information to thoughtfully respond to anything. The particulars of any story are distorted, omitted, or made up.
We’re ill-informed, misinformed, or flat out lied to. There’s an agenda here folks, and it’s being carried out by the worker bees who fill our heads with noise all day every day coast to coast and border to border.
The Mainstream Drones in front of television cameras, radio microphones, or behind news desks don’t crank out stories as much as they manufacture premises. And these premises generate The Noise that becomes The News.
Case in point: The Repeal of the Military’s Don’t Ask - Don’t Tell Policy.
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