How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate
Caitlin Johnstone- It’s bizarre once you start noticing how much of a disconnect there is between reality and the mass media’s reporting on world events.
The worst mistake you can make when reading the news is to assume there’s a good reason why the mass media report on something in the way that they do. That there’s a good reason why Israel-Palestine gets framed as a complex and morally ambiguous issue with no clear path forward, even though it all looks pretty self-evident to you. That there must be a valid and legitimate reason why one story gets more coverage than a seemingly far more important story, like how the release of one Israeli-American hostage is currently getting far more news media coverage than the deliberate starvation of an entire enclave full of civilians.
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