If You Believed the Mainstream Media...
156 2014-10-06 by [deleted]
If, throughout history, you always trusted the version of events pushed by the mainstream media, you would have believed:
Iraq had nukes.
The Nayirah Testimony was totally legit.
Hitler was no threat to German freedoms.
The NSA would never spy on us.
The IRS would never target conservatives.
Asbestos was completely safe.
Jessica Lynch fought back against her captors in a bold escape.
A plan like Operation Northwoods would never be considered.
The Gulf of Tonkin was an unprovoked attack from the Vietnamese.
Nixon had nothing to do with the Watergate scandal.
MKUltra is just a crackpot theory.
Operation Mockingbird was just crazy talk and no one would ever manipulate the media.
The CIA would never smuggle drugs.
America would never recruit former Nazi scientists.
So, please, anything from the mainstream media should be taken with as much skepticism as anything on here.
25 comments
33 ides-of-march 2014-10-06
And there's probably much more than those you addressed.
22 keepcalmson 2014-10-06
The FBI and Homeland Security would never attack populist movements like OWS.
The CIA would never sell cocaine to Americans.
11 George_Tenet 2014-10-06
if you think that BBC is propaganda ... or corporate media... or MSM... then you think The Guardian , and the washington post are too.
wait...
where did you learn about snowden
in the guardian, and wapo, and in interviews on nbc
real whistle-blowers are ignored by the corporate media. not given the facetime that he got.
snowdens limited hangout
they used snowden to normalize surveillance, to get people used to the idea that their 4th ammdnnetnententmddm rights dont matter .
3 TheSelfGoverned 2014-10-06
Now that social media and dissent is mainstream, ignorance is in short supply. Fear is their new weapon.
0 LordoftheGodKings 2014-10-06
And feed us limited hang outs daily now to make us complacent. All hail the new flesh.
1 George_Tenet 2014-10-06
they are done daily actually , youre right
11 Fuckyousantorum 2014-10-06
We need a plug in like that one developed for chrome that allows you to hover the mouse over the name of any congress person in an article and it shows you the donations they received.
We need a version that lists all the false claims every paper/journalist has made.
7 Indra-Varuna 2014-10-06
Who are the rulers of the mainstream media?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N7rzw2l4W5A/UhjCo07dZZI/AAAAAAAAQNc/q9JwgV_OSjY/s1600/Zionist+Media(2).jpg
3 PrivilegedPeasant 2014-10-06
and that is just a short list. Solid stories in making your point but the list would be large enough worthy of documenting encyclopedia style.
2 rabbits_dig_deep 2014-10-06
Nixon stepped out of line and acted like, as POTUS, he was in charge. They reminded him that he is just their puppet, to be installed and removed at their discretion.
2 MsSara77 2014-10-06
Or he committed a series of crimes, breaking laws decided on by a democratic society, and tried to cover them up, and was subject to the law just like any American would be. But we can go with what you said, that makes more sense. This sub is all against secret maneuverings and abuses of power except when we can use them to justify the idea o a secret group that uses the President as a puppet
1 [deleted] 2014-10-06
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1 [deleted] 2014-10-06
Also plastic baby bottles.
1 [deleted] 2014-10-06
*BPA exposure isn't going to cause a global population crash in 2-3 generations.
1 thatsnotanargument 2014-10-06
And if you believed what you read on the Internet...
1 TheOilofPersia 2014-10-06
Gary Webb was wrong
1 just_do_the_math 2014-10-06
I think this is a great list to serve as a reminder of MSM skepticism, but it would also be helpful to provide a contrasting list of all the times MSM actually broadcasted truthfully.
Without a contrasting list to help draw a conclusion, this to me just reads as echo-chamber material.
1 enlilsumerian 2014-10-06
Ebola will never get in the US
0 moodmomentum 2014-10-06
That one was correct. Nixon indeed have nothing to do with Watergate. But he had foreknowledge of the JFK assassination, so he had to keep his mouth shut and resign.
Also add these:
ABC News heavily pushes story trying to link Anthrax Attacks to Iraq ... with followup denials
In contrast to the New York Times & Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh reported that the Syrian rebels used sarin gas (not Assad), and that the assassination of Osama Bin Laden was "one big lie, not a single word of it is true"
1 timtom45 2014-10-06
says nothing about the assasination of Osama,
just that a pakistani report about day-to-day life in his compound likely wasnt true
0 Squackula 2014-10-06
Yes, except the IRS thing was theatre, something I would've thought was fairly obvious?
0 RogerWaterZ 2014-10-06
I find that The Daily Show news is more trust worthy then the mainstream media.
2 PigFarmington 2014-10-06
Comedy Central being owned by Viacom/Time Warner... They can only say so much.
0 RogerWaterZ 2014-10-06
I still have more faith in John Stewart than anyone on FAUX-News.
1 PigFarmington 2014-10-06
Right... but it's spurious. It's the same as "well.... Obama sure is better than Romney" ignoring they both suck.
3 TheSelfGoverned 2014-10-06
Now that social media and dissent is mainstream, ignorance is in short supply. Fear is their new weapon.
0 LordoftheGodKings 2014-10-06
And feed us limited hang outs daily now to make us complacent. All hail the new flesh.