If anyone is the "voice of the normie" I believe it would be Joe Rogan. Last week, he was on Tim Pool's show, and said that now pretty much everyone believes the media is full of S___. He said "it is quite a big difference between now and Walter Cronkite.
Another guest (Luke? Ian?) said "actually, he lied also. They always lied. It's just that now the people are realizing it. Rogan agreed, and then began giving some of his own examples of how the media had always lied.
It's weird how people were so trusting especially after Kennedy was murdered. Cronkite was a part of the state apparatus. Operation Mockingbird was exposed by the Church Committee in '75. Yet people didn't seem to care or notice. I'm only a few years younger than Rogan and was a news junkie as a little kid. I'd sit in front of the TV and flip between channels during the national and world news. Every day all 3 networks would have the same exact stories, usually in the same order. The ONLY story that was always different was the feel-good story at the end of the broadcast. When I asked my mother how could this be, she said they share information. But why would competitors share their news? She couldn't answer. I was 8 years old in the late 70s and knew someone was manipulating the news.
Cronkite was an admitted commie and liar.
Glad I'm not the only one. I had an interest in politics since I was 6. Not sure who I inherited that from because neither of my parents are. Our grade school held a mock presidential debate and had students represent Bush and Clinton. I insisted that Ross Perot was just as important and since I "knew so much about him" was chosen to represent him in the debates. After going back and forth with the Bush and Clinton kids, I realized they were just repeating and paraphrasing what the talking heads said about Bush, Clinton, and Perot, without ever really listening to any of the men speak. I hated that TV and the other kids made fun of the way Perot looked and spoke kinda goofy. He was a billionaire businessman that earned his chops, and wasn't the greatest speaker in the world but his solutions for fixing the government and economy were practical and sound, and I liked what he had to say. That experience really opened my eyes to how the taking heads define what the people believe, as opposed to actually taking the time to listen to the candidates speak for themselves. '91 or '92, I believe.
Not really, boomers trusted into the great lifestyle they had, Gen Y were the first wave of holocaust indoctrinees, Gen X/Millennials got off to a good start with raw internet but were the first to feel the pinch in costs of living and Gen Z were born into servile iPhone / social media slave caste alphabet mafia talking points.
It's hard to care about what "Distrusting" the government means when you have 3 homes and a speed boat, it's easy to distrust them as a basement dweller internet slueth but everyone thinks you're weird, and the concept itself is irrelevant to most zoomers because their brainwashing comes from influencers they think are their friends who have nothing to do with the government.
Anyone with a triple digit IQ can deduce that news companies are for profit entities, the owners will set the agenda to profit themselves, not inform you, anyone who needs more of a push to arrive at this conclusion is already retarded which is apparently most people.
That's right , big conglomerates buy entities like CNN, put out their personal propaganda, operate at a loss, and use that as a tax write off for their prosperous companies. It should be outlawed. I believe "news" co''s should not be allowed to be owned by conglomerates. They should have individual owners with only a board of advisors. If they lose money,then it's really their money...the MSM would change overnight...