[TruthElixirX]

>What is sad now in the USA is that there are very few politicians who speak the truth and very few news outlets that don't just cooperate in the propaganda.

There never were any. Name this mystical time when he U.S. government was some benevolent force for good and not constantly lying to the civilian population to push them to unwanted wars.

[mark_l_watson]

I feel that the situation is worse now than in the past.

[jmccree]

How so? Most americans have unfiltered access to the internet where they can get far more information than the old days of having 1 or 2 local newspapers and 3 TV broadcast networks.

[mark_l_watson]

I agree that some people, us included, are saavy enough to read news sources from around the world and make reasonably informed decisions based on a variety of sources.

However, the US corporate news is largely a propaganda machine and the vast majority of US citizens get their news in propaganda form.

Don't believe that? Do an experiment: identify a few news stories on Fox News, MSNBC, etc. and then spend some some on Google News reading coverage for these stories from a variety of other countries. I do this a few times a month for news that I am interested in, and it is an eye opening experience.

The authors of "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America" spoke at Google last fall when I was consulting there. They roast local and national news as being very biased and not covering things that people really should know.

[GotAnyMegadeth]

Maybe that is why people feel things are worse now. Things were no different before, but people had no idea, now they have some idea.