I
have been doing some research on a few issues--- the Minimum Wage, the
Full Employment Act of 1945 and the level of labor struggles going back
to the period between 1945 and 1968 or so.
The mainstream newspapers were just filled with lies and misinformation; barely a day went by when there wasn't the most vicious red-baiting and anti-Communist hysteria being whipped up with big doses of the most reactionary and putrid forms of jingoism and national chauvinism prepping the American people for wars.
But, the mainstream media today is far worse--- often the lies don't even come shrouded in kernels of truth.
At least previously there were enough facts and bits of truth so one could learn to "read between the lines" and there was some coverage of alternative views so one could sort fact from fiction.
In contrast, today we are being fed a steady and unending stream of nothing but lie after lie making it difficult to even "read between the lines."
And then on top of these lies we get all these phony "liberals," "progressives" and "leftists" picking up these lies and repackaging them passing them off as the truth.
It doesn't seem to make any difference if the issue is Obama, Venezuela, the Ukraine or the Minimum Wage--- you go to the newspaper or magazine rack in a library or a news stand and you can't even purchase the truth.
The mainstream newspapers were just filled with lies and misinformation; barely a day went by when there wasn't the most vicious red-baiting and anti-Communist hysteria being whipped up with big doses of the most reactionary and putrid forms of jingoism and national chauvinism prepping the American people for wars.
But, the mainstream media today is far worse--- often the lies don't even come shrouded in kernels of truth.
At least previously there were enough facts and bits of truth so one could learn to "read between the lines" and there was some coverage of alternative views so one could sort fact from fiction.
In contrast, today we are being fed a steady and unending stream of nothing but lie after lie making it difficult to even "read between the lines."
And then on top of these lies we get all these phony "liberals," "progressives" and "leftists" picking up these lies and repackaging them passing them off as the truth.
It doesn't seem to make any difference if the issue is Obama, Venezuela, the Ukraine or the Minimum Wage--- you go to the newspaper or magazine rack in a library or a news stand and you can't even purchase the truth.
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