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Posted by Ian M on August 29, 2019, 9:27 pm, in reply to "Thanks, good article. Nm"
strong conclusion too: 'Too many of us become utterly trusting as soon as our hot button subjects are on the front pages. People who know the media is utterly corrupt can still switch off their critical thinking when it starts to venture any opinion they can agree with. Commentators who deride the absurd media lies about the Skripals or Corbyn or Syria or Russia still share the Environment page of the BBC or the Guardian, as if somehow honesty and integrity are guaranteed there. George Monbiot, serial liar and lunatic when it comes to Syria or western foreign policy, is trusted to be an honest broker when he talks about climate change or veganism, or saving the whales. It’s too easy for any one of us to tell ourselves the mainstream journalist who is saying what we want to hear must have a good and honest reason for saying it. It’s so comforting to just shut off the critical awareness and drift on the cloud of manufactured ‘popular opinion’. Seductive to be in the majority for once. Reassuring to have someone do the thinking for us so we can, just for a bit, ride easy in their wake. But the problem is then we end up signing up for Avaaz. Or cheering on the invasion of Iraq – because of those scary WMDs, or thinking thank goodness the G7 are going to do something about those terrifying “record” Amazon fires. Because we forgot that the mass media and the body politic serve the super-rich, the financial institutions, the intelligence agencies and no one else. And they always lie, because they always need to hide that simple fact.' cheers, I
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Message Thread:
- Catte at OffG, all her splendid guns blazing, shoots down the 'Amazon burning!!!' orchestrated panic - Rhisiart Gwilym August 28, 2019, 5:21 pm
- And as she and all her colleagues at Off-G assert, they're all dead against forest burning; they - Rhisiart Gwilym August 28, 2019, 5:37 pm
- Fine writing!... - AlanG August 28, 2019, 5:58 pm
- We are being played ... - Tomski August 28, 2019, 6:12 pm
- Re: Catte at OffG, all her splendid guns blazing, shoots down the 'Amazon burning!!!' orchestrated panic - John Monro August 28, 2019, 9:26 pm
- Thanks, good article. Nm - Shyaku August 29, 2019, 2:44 pm
- yes, thx for posting - Ian M August 29, 2019, 9:27 pm
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