Well, that pretty much tells you what the networks think of their viewers. Wait and watch a bit - they'll show you what they think of you again.
I think the right thing to do, which of course won't happen because both the right and left politicians don't really want an educated electorate...would be to have a "Critical Thinking Network" the CTN, sponsored by no one, but paid for by tax dollars. The CTN would do nothing but select examples from media sources, both left and right, and demonstrate the logical flaws in the positions they take, so that the viewers can learn to spot the techniques of rhetoric, PSYOPS, and other mind control and conditioning methods used by the various media sources. This would not be to promote any side, but rather to teach people to spot the logical fallacies when they are used. The assumption is that the electorate would become educated enough to know when pols, talking heads, etc. are implementing anything but an objective presentation of news. However, this won't happen, because no one really wants to think critically. They want to turn on the TV and let the warm stupid feeling wash all over them...
You think it is great that Fox News is a propaganda source that makes lots of money? Seriously, how pathetic has America become that people were trying to turn in to view Al Jeezera to get news of what was actually going on in Egypt? Americans should be ashamed of themselves...
Murdoch has done more to dumb down society than any other recent mogul, imo. Turning people into vacuous, squabbling dimwits to make a buck......heck, we do that for free here in P&R. No surprise, his former mogul partners the Packers (Jamie, that is) turned to the far more agreeable avenue of increasing their interests in gambling and casinos.
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But they are not, and since I am in the business of what is, rather then would should be, it has basically encompassed my worldview. Americans do not care about our democracy, it is really that simple. They say they do, yet, they do not take the time seek information in the information age. Man, I WISH the net existed when I was 20! So what will be will be, when this thing falls in hopefully I will be at a safe distance, if there is one.
In the 60's, a common refrain among the progressives was: "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." Your thinking and planning an escape is part of the problem. Sorry mate, but your Que Sera Sera rings hollow...
A major tactical point in any battle is to realize when the position is lost, and to fall back, and regroup. Nothing can stop this train till it falls off the track, default is inevitable. Social decay, Educational decay and infrastructure decay are all in an advanced state. What will be will be because it must be, we are past the event horizon.