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For me, the most interesting thing here is that everyone involved in this discussion seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room, so to speak. In my opinion, the words "news" and "propaganda" have been interchangable for at least the past 120 years when it comes to the American media. Left or right bias completely aside, the American public has been spoonfed what publishers/producers think we want hear in order to sell papers and advertising time. It's pretty much an historically accepted fact that the "yellow journalists" drove this country into the Spanish-American War ("Remember the Maine" anyone?) as well as World War I. The fact that celebrity gossip accounts for so much revenue alone should show you that we're only given what we want (or what they think we want).
Hezbollah, Hamas and the Israelis are only giving us what they think they want us to hear. And by "us", I mean the world at large, not just the US consumer.
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