{"id":39933,"date":"2018-10-31T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39933"},"modified":"2018-10-31T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:41:50","slug":"the-press-makes-the-news-they-no-longer-report-it-a-sign-of-the-end-of-political-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39933","title":{"rendered":"The Press Makes the News \u2013 They No longer Report It \u2013 A Sign of the End of Political Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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QUESTION:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mr. Armstrong \u2013
\nOn 08\/23 you wrote a blog entry that seems to espouse two incongruous claims: (1) That the press has distorted & propagandized its news reporting so egregiously now that the American people give little credence to what it tells them (as evidenced by the Gallup polls results you showed), and (2) That the press is yet still managing to rope-along enough gullible emotional people that they are dividing the country and will be at fault if it breaks-up. How do you reconcile these two assertions ?: Isn\u2019t it more likely that the press is simply helping to incite those who already left-tending \u201ctrue believers\u201d as well as the deep state which is the real entity brokering all this enmity against Trump (and the real player with enough clout to foment\/incite division of the country in service of its own selfish power & privilege) ?<\/p>\n

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ANSWER:<\/strong> I do not believe that the press is capable of altering society insofar as changing the minds of the majority. If you look at the presidential elections, only three people EVER<\/strong> won 60%-63% of the popular vote \u2013 FDR, LBJ, and Richard Nixon. If you look at the winning votes, you will see that most are in the mid 50% range \u2013 (usually 51 to 54%). Less than 10% of the people are independent. The bulk of the people are predisposed Democrats or Republicans. Those who watch CNN do so because they WANT<\/strong> to hear negative things about Trump and those who listen to Fox want to listen to negative things about the Democrats. People far too often believe what they want to believe. That is what I never try to change someone\u2019s mindset \u2013 it is pointless. Tech ONLY<\/strong> those who want to learn \u2013 the independent thinkers who see life as a quest for knowledge.<\/p>\n

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