What do you think of this description of mainstream media and it's consumer ?

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"The mainstream media consumer is inundated with a firehose of falsehoods to the point where he eventually gives up trying to separate fact from fiction. Out of sheer exhaustion he accepts the desired conclusion against his better instincts..."

- Robert Bridge

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Ynotisay · M

It's nonsense. The "mainstream media," whatever that is, doesn't make people lazy. They work extraordinarily hard to get it right.
But out of curiosity, did you take a second to look in to Robert Bridge?
Do you know who he is? Do you know he was the former editor of Moscow News and contributes to RT...the state run media arm of Russia?
SURE hope you were posting this as an example of subtle manipulation.

Wraithorn · 51-55, M

@Ynotisay Contributes to RT ? Woooo...he must be a Russian spy.

Yes I did know that. The mainstream media fears the alternative voice but I don't.

Ynotisay · M

@Wraithorn Nah. You didn't know that. Sure hope you know that RT is about one thing and that's manipulating Americans and Europeans. THEY are the "media" he was talking about. They appeal to emotional thinkers. Maybe that's you and maybe it's not.
But someone who doesn't consider the source of what they read and see is a poster child for those who "accept the desired conclusion."

Wraithorn · 51-55, M

@Ynotisay Making so many assumptions is never good. You're bound to be wrong a lot.
I appreciate your opinion though. After all, I did ask for it.

Ynotisay · M

@Wraithorn Well, you actually did ask for it. When you start a post with "What do you think..." that's what happens. People tell you what they think.

And I think, and am right, that you had no idea that Bridge is a Russian propagandist.

But now you do. So there's that.

Wraithorn · 51-55, M

@Ynotisay Right....of course...🙄