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In reply to the discussion: The Western Corporate Media Cannot Be Trusted. [View all]Uncle Joe
(58,483 posts)American People.
Today most Americans still get their disseminated information from the corporate media although that number is dropping as the Internet gains in strength and access to foreign sources have increased.
The fact that most of the corporate media is American is akin to the family or friends analogy, they're more closely connected to our nation and thus most Americans do accept their point of view or propaganda at some level first.
If RT or any other foreign source lied to the American People, the damage and impact wouldn't be as severe because more Americans cast a more cynical or disconnected eye on them because they're foreigners, strangers, them not us.
Having said that, the major deterioration of trust between the American People and the U.S. corporate media, weakens our nation in a multitude of ways, decreasing the chances of our nation having an informed citizenry and an ignorant nation much more often than not, gets bad government which in turn can only allow disastrous laws and policies to follow.
You may have pathological liars in your family but I would venture most people don't and even if you do, the first time those people lied to or betrayed you was/is the hurtful damage that I'm speaking of, even if you had been warned by a another family member beforehand, the damage just goes further back in time, but it's still there.
If you can't or don't trust your own family anymore, that's an intangible loss to both them and you.
As for Bush/Cheney lies, a majority of the American People at one point believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, Al Qaeda was firmly entrenched in Iraq and WMDs were a major threat to us because the corporate media as an institution simply reinforced their point of view or just took dictation from the Republicans, without any major rebuttal.