Why I Don't Trust The Media

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Media propaganda manipulation has been around as long as media has been around.

The 20th Century brought the best of the propaganda machines.

Hollywood the most influential.

Movies, and TV shows are the most used (especially prime time TV).

"Special Effects" are the official tools used and sure makes things look "real" 

Even at its base level, wordage-with-emphasis is the daily main tool.
I've seen the BBC state one thing and during their narrative, prove the theme is all
imaginary and reliant on the viewer's fears.

My old tale -one that I've told many times on RN, is when a Graphic Artist approached me
to request a poster to be output on some machinery I'd been trained on. I'd known him
for years and when I called-up the poster, it announced that the readers of the newspaper
where I was working believed it's information-gathering was only worth 42 percent.
(My numbers may be a little off, this was over twenty years ago!)

I looked at the G. Artist and said "only 42?" He smiled and said "well, change it".
I countered that my software was different to his and he just nodded and went away.
He returned later with the number increased to fifty-something percent.

There was no survey, it was all just made-up. Look at something from a certain angle and
you can write anything that can be a vehicle to hide one's agenda in.
Smear Merchants.