Wanna Know Why We the People Really Don't Know Squat?

[bhikkhu]

19. Because "we" don't want to?

...thinking about the premise, if people actually wanted to know what was really going on (as opposed to being spoon-fed whatever was the tripe-of-the-moment) then a real news program could be started on any scale, and it would succeed and out-compete the others. The market is open, essentially, and if people want the news, then a source providing actual news will out-perform the spoon-feeders.

What we find, unfortunately, is the opposite. Fox news is still the most popular TV news program, in spite of constantly serving up little but lies and misinformation. Obvious lies and misinformation, if one has the capacity for critical thinking.

On the radio, Limbaugh still tops the list as the "most listened to".

So I am prone to look at the evidence and think that people don't really know much because they don't really care much, or that they don't watch the news for the sake of information, but for other reasons.

The one thing that I see "corporate media" doing to perpetuate this is riffing on the persistent fatalistic message that government is inept, that people in general are stupid and corrupt, and that there is little point in doing anything more strenuous than mental masturbation.

But we get that here too, often enough.