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Distrust of media hits record high
There’s something you should hear, but we’re willing to bet you might not believe it. The results of a new Gallup poll reveal that Americans’ distrust with the media is more severe than ever.
Gallup released findings from one of their newest studies on Friday, and through their research the polling group has determined that more than half of Americans have little to no trust in the mainstream media. According to the group’s findings, 60 percent of Americans polled say they have “little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly.”
Pollsters with Gallup have asked Americans about their take on the mass media routinely since the 1990s, but analyzing the answers they’ve received in the two decades or so since reveals that distrust is indeed at a record high.
Back in 1997 when Gallup first began regularly asking around, only 46 percent of the people polled said they had very little-to no trust in the media, compared to 53 percent who favored it either a great deal or a fair amount. Today, 40 percent say they trust their sources that much, compared to 44 percent just one year earlier.
Source and full story: Russia Today, 21 Sept 2012
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Re: Distrust of media hits record high
From my perspective, public trust in the media is not at a record low, but at a record high. The masses believe anthing the media tells them about world events (Libya, Syria, Myanmar, etc) and about the economy (America is broke and the masses must have austerity). The masses believe that the attack on the CIA base in Benghazi was "criminal," and that the death of Stevens was "tragic." The masses think in terms that are dictated to them by the media. For example, imperialist mass murder is now a "humanitarian intervention." Even "anti-war" people use that term "intervention." Even some people at WUFYS use it.
When NATO says, "We must bomb them and steal their resources to kill an evil dictator," the masses think, "I don't know if we should bomb them, but yes, we must kill the evil dictator." Hence the masses trust the media and support the bombing. And once the masses get an idea in their heads, they fanatically cling to it, despite having no logic or evidence (e.g. "Salafists" did the Benghazi attack"). I could give a long list of examples of mass gullibility.
The masses think like a herd of cattle, or a swarm or fish. And since the big media outlets are international, the mass herd is global. Never has mass stupidity been higher.
The article above is based on a poll by the Gallup Organization, which is based in Washington DC, and has more than 40 offices in 27 countries. The firm grew that large because it works closely with the corporate media to manipulate mass opinion via fake "polls." For example, the Gallup "poll" referenced above is designed to quiet the masses by pleasing the average person's vanity. "Distrust of the media is at an all-time high? I believe it! I'm too smart for them!"
Nonsense. The public is as stupid as it has ever been. And by stoking public vanity, the Gallup “poll” enhances public gullibility.
Nothing changes. No matter how anti-war the masses may seem, the public can easily and instantly be made to reverse themselves. This is done by false flags (e.g. 9-11) or by arranged and manipulated incidents (e.g. the sinking of the Lusitania, or the attack on Pearl Harbor).
The masses believe whatever the media tell them. They trust the media.