MediaLens on Bregman/Carlson interview: "We Don't Do Propaganda"

MediaLens uses this great interchange (see it here) as an example of the really-existing propaganda system, not the idiotic "it's all fake news" version nor the "I trust everything the WaPo and NYT tell me because Daddy read it" reaction.

See, it's, like, more complex, and shit. Sort of what you tell your kids if you ever catch them not doing something to increase their future status and/or earning potential: you actually have to put in "effort." You have to "learn" how the system works, and then, even worse, you have to "think" and "use judgment" when you read any source.

Any. Including this MediaLens article. Yes, every single time.

Critical fuck thinking is what it's called. Try it, you'll like it, after you give up the crack of your self-inflicted, endlessly self-congratulating and -aggrandizing echo-chamber-of-mirrors (to mix a metaphor even within a hyphenated string!).

You: "But I had so much fun on Sundays reading the New York Times with my Mommy and Daddy. How could it possibly get anything wrong? Hey, aren't those Fox News watchers stupid? Pass the latte."

Sigh. I'll try one more time before the methane burp adds 66% of all post-industrial carbon to the atmosphere in under a decade and/or before India and Pakistan have a nuclear exchange and/or etc--and I'll use video as god knows Super Brilliant Ivy Latte Sippers have also given up this thing called "reading":