I was watching the CBS news one night, and Scott Pelly was interviewing someone who had been an eyewitness to one of the massacres in Paris. The interviewee said something about three couples sitting in the outdoors area of a restaurant that had come under fire by the gunmen, and Scott immediately reiterated in that dumb TV news person style of questioning by repeating what the person just said, but changed it to "scores" of people, whereas the interviewee rebutted that "it was six people, Scott."
It's things like that which makes one wonder just how much the news is slanted, embellished, and sensationalized in order to appeal to a certain demographic. I read news stories in the paper every day that make no sense because of bad editing, or none at all, and where the reporter leaves out many facts that would tie the story together, if it wasn't for the lack of column space.
People are too busy these days trying to make it with two and three jobs to be able to sit back, and take in the big picture. They dive into their phones for hours on end to escape their mundane existence, and what do they find? All sorts of conspiracies, fake news, and just plain whacko theories about why things have gone so bad for them, which are usually put out by people who have no idea what they are talking about in the first place.
Someone once said something to the effect that if you want to pass a lie off as truth, you need to get it out there as soon as you can, say it as loud as you can, and keep repeating it until it drowns out the truth.
It's been working pretty well for the Republicans so far. To paraphrase a famous Jack Nicholson line from a movie that I can't remember the title of, the American people can no longer handle the truth.
PF
