Do you ever wonder just how propagandized you are?

Media, the enemy of the people.

The real truth will never be something you'll see on the television news.

They’re trying their best to control our perspective of the world. Don’t let them.

I think that feeling is actually a sign you’re paying attention. Most people either assume they’re not propagandized OR assume everything is propaganda. The uncomfortable middle is realizing that you’re influenced, but not helpless.

Everything sucks; nothing else matters…

I’m in Asia. The only English channels are CNN & BBC. It’s a 24/7 drumbeat of Trump is bad and “climate change” is an dire immediate threat. It’s interesting since I never watch that crap. So one-sided. Hopefully the people in these countries don't believe it.

I don't listen to podcasts so thank God for that and I have zero social media outside of this place. From what I see here social media has a lot of problems with it and is meant to drive clicks for monetary purposes by catering to an audience that wants to be force-fed bullshite.

I get my world / national news from three main sources. NHK (Japanese media that shies away from opinion), CBS (which does a solid job in all honesty and has moderated themselves this year) & this place. It keeps me balanced in terms of stories covered and the slant that can come with it. I don't want to only read and view news/opinion pieces that align with my views, which are on the Right. I also have no interest in reading / viewing things that are riddled with TDS. That's equally useless to me.

I will visit other news websites from time to time but the three above are my daily go-to.

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That actually seems like a pretty intentional setup compared to most people. I’ve tried doing something similar, but one thing I’ve noticed is even when I’m checking a few different places, they can still end up telling basically the same version of the story - just with a slightly different tone. Out of curiosity, do those three feel pretty distinct to you, or do they ever kind of line up in how they frame things?

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AI is just going to make this harder.

Garbage in = Garbage out

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I don't listen to podcasts so thank God for that and I have zero social media outside of this place

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You get to pick what podcasts you listen to. The only "political" podcast I listen to is the President's Daily Brief by an ex CIA officer, Mike Baker. 20 minutes a day, very neutral and pragmatic. I watch Gutfeld because it's hilarious, and that's it.

Meanwhile, you have 1/3 a of this board that has Israel derangement syndrome based on crap they watched on Instagram.

EU media has been absolutely awful for as long as I've read them. The crap I read/saw in Brussels, London, etc., for years was just laughable. But these are the same countries that saw a tsunami in Japan as an excuse to shut down nukes in a country... not vulnerable to tsunamis. NHK is pretty down the middle, IMO. Economist was tolerant left, the WSJ lost the plot during COVID.

ETA: a good feed to follow is "The European Conservative." Part of a recent article:

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Friedrich Merz’s coalition looks set to enter a fresh round of infighting now that his own centre-right CDU has begun questioning green orthodoxy.

In particular, CDU energy minister Katherina Reiche on Monday criticised the European Union’s “rigid” 2050 climate target. She said Brussels should “accept” it might not hit ‘net zero’ by then, and allow up to a 10% leeway.

We need to become more flexible again, not just be satisfied with 100% solutions, but allow different solutions and technologies.

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Here's the conundrum ... the Catch 22, if you will.

1 - you either choose to be woefully ignorant and uninvolved, detached from everything, or ....

2 - you go down the rabbit hole.

There's really no inbetween for most these days.