MSM News Inject You with an Attitude Now

Opinionated Journalism is Propaganda, Not an Honest Journalism

If you Read the News nowadays, you're Injected with an Attitude, not with Information.

Another my good three-year old analysis. I got it all right already back then.

Some people were asking me how could I have my strong unpopular political opinions, 'don't I read the news, or what'. Ironically, at least partially the answer is yes. I don't read the news, or at least, not in the same way many people in the West do.

Majority of people swallow all they read on media, BOTH facts and opinions presented in the news articles, without distinguishing between them, and, hence, they are already INJECTED WITH an ATTITUDE after 'reading the news'. They already 'know' - or had been told, more precisely, by dishonest opinionated journalists - who is good and who is evil in Western political space, whom to support and whom to detest, etc.

That's exactly the problem. Instead of merely presenting facts in neutral way to let people make their OWN informed opinions about them, Western media more and more often intersperse information with journalists' opinions and attitudes. Hence, it's no longer news coverage but political propaganda.

More or less all Western media - both Left and right - are engaged into political propaganda. The only difference is that with conservative media sources it's known, and majority of people are largely aware of their political bias. The biggest Left wing media, like CNN, New York Times or BBC, for some unknown reason are still considered to be 'trustworthy sources' despite multiple proven cases of selective coverage, opinionated journalism, open partisan bias, and sometimes downright lies and propaganda even. Still, for most people CNN and BBC are 'trustworthy sources'. I fail to understand that.

Due to their lack of critical thinking and lack of of spare time and energy to verify and fact-check information they're receiving, most people buy all media propaganda without being able to distinguish between facts and opinions. They swallow the whole thing, and as a result of it get injected with certain attitudes without even noticing, and genuinely believe that they acquired this attitude entirely on their own.

I don't consume news like that. I'm still capable of distinguishing between facts and opinions. I learn the facts and make MY OWN conclusions about them. I don't need media - and anybody else as that matters - to TELL ME what to think. No thanks. Give me facts, give me data, and I'm smart enough to make my own opinions of it.

Sometimes, when the facts are interspersed with opinions and propaganda too tightly to separate them, I read both Left and right sources to get more or less objective perspective, or at least to balance both Left and right biases out. And I'm always thinking for myself, and don't need journalists to think for me. It's not their job even. Majority of people for some reason are incapable of doing so.

Some examples of opinionated journalism as opposed to objective journalism as it should be. 'Trump began to build the wall on Mexico border' - fact, and people are making their own conclusions on it. 'Building wall on Mexico border was one of the most inhumane policies of Trump administration' - opinion. I don't need your opinions, I can tell what's humane and inhumane myself, thanks. Most people it seems can't, and this is a problem.