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Originally Posted by J_Player
The large percentage of ordinary American people have no reason to stand up and fight. They do not know the news they hear is not a true account of the facts. The average American person believes he is seeing the true news, because he does not see other viewpoints from other places in the world. So they do not see the appearance of any garbage to clean up in the news.
But this does not happen only in the USA. You will see the news service for many countries contains some degree of propaganda and editing to support the politics of these other countries. It has been my experience that people think the same way all over the world. If people in China, or Russia, or Italy, or any other country were to hear only broadcasts that were had editorial propaganda, then they would also believe what they are hearing is correct. But in Europe this is not easily done, because Europeans speak several languages, and can hear broadcasts from many countries to get a good picture of what are the real facts. In the USA most average Americans only speak English, and will only hear the USA news broadcasts. For this reason, it is much easier to accomplish the task of adding propaganda to the news in the USA. And people seldom suspect anything is wrong, because there is no "different version" news to compare to the news they hear. So if I am correct, It is highly unlikely that there will be any citizen's uprising in the USA designed to remove propaganda from the news. And I doubt any small group of protesters would have any chance in changing the USA news service policies.
The result of this propaganda is most Americans believe the wars that happened were necessary to stop very dangerous threats to the world or to USA. This is what they see on the television, and what they believe. They have no reason to put a stop to fighting these wars against these perceived threats to the world. They want to help remove these threats, and they know the way to do this is to support their government's position. So the average American citizen is not stupid, but just uninformed. Actually, they may be less smart on average than the rest of the world because they spend a lot of time getting their opinions from watching televisions, which prevents them from thinking on their own.
I could be wrong about all this, but this is how it looks to me from inside the USA after going outside for some extended stays.
Best wishes,
J_P
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"In the USA most average Americans only speak English, and will only hear the USA news broadcasts. "
Hmmmm...
sure it is, but it's not a real and important reason today.
I mean, they could watch BBC world, they could watch Al Jazeera international (english), they could see a number of international (english) reports/services (think e.g. at RussiaToday... a sat tv that make news etc ONLY in english!).
The problem with that english only understanding is now back... one must just have a sat receiver and a dish... or simply a computer and Internet and watch whatever he want in english, everywhere...
And even in places like China or Iran... no problems for "skilled" people...
In US not even a problem... everything you can do... about... even buy a war-rifle at supermarket!
Ok... laws there are too... and limitations on some things... but cannot compare with e.g. Europe... where e.g. weapons control and selling is really strictly limited.
In USA the problem is that people have kinda of "autarchy culture" ...so they think simply don't need watching from a "different point of view".
Indeed that's the idea behind Al Jazeera international and other stuff... but seems not much US citizens watch it!
Autarchy... USA suffers from that disease.... I think. In everything.
Thats' my point of view , of course.
Then what to expect from autarchy system ? Autarchy e.g. press and newspapers or TV ?
I tell you... watch Fox and you'll see... just USA-centric presentation of world affairs and news... not even a different "point of view" there.
That's why I don't watch much Fox... I know already what they made without watching!
But, let me say that other countries is about the same... with very few exceptions... like northern europe TVs/news/press ... evn in UK there's a fairly clear way of doing about "interesting" stuff...
Don't you remember "how" some western tv channels spread images of gen. Colin Powell play with a glass vial at UN ... talking of Saddam's secret weapons... ???
And BBC what spreaded by its channels ??? Who remember that ???
Then what ?
Nothing... press/news are striclty controlled in most of the world... and "free" people/journalists are often killed in an elevator...
That's reality.
Kind regards,
Max