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iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
7. Yes, we did win and they lost.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 02:48 PM
Nov 2012

And we won despite the media lying and misinforming the viewing public. This is the evidence I look to when suggesting that Americans are beginning to see the media for the propaganda tool they are. The internet is the alternative media that will check the abuses perpetrated by the MSM but the internet requires one to be active in their own search for information (while television/radio allow consumers to be passive).
As more people recognize that pundits lie more will make the effort to find new sources of information.
There is no way that Romney could have gotten as many votes as he did without the influence of the MSM. But in the process of providing that influence (backing a clearly horrible candidate) the MSM exposed themselves as shameless, propagandistic whores for right wing elites.
Hopefully, by the next election cycle, even more Americans will recognize the media as untrustworthy sources of information and authority.

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