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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  4461 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Recognizing anti-American propaganda - RT
You're missing the information flow as it applies to Americans:

1) Be inundated by something on FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Comedy Central, C-SPAN and the Weather Channel

2) Go hunt up something that you know is going to have a different bias

I've heard it argued (convincingly) that AJE has less bias than American media. I'm not going to make that argument, nor am I going to rely on it. What I will point out is that it is far more common for Americans to reactively go to RT or AJE than it is for them to actively go to RT or AJE. Further, the saturation of American news sources in the United States inoculates all but the most biased against most anti-American propaganda.

News is never digested in solitude. It is always digested as part of The Commons. When The Commons is 99% the sources listed above, 1% of the craziest, most moon-batty propaganda is, for all intents and purposes, a drop in the bucket.

Speaking of moon-batty...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times