From the Chicago Tribune:
So accustomed have we become to seeing video–the Rodney King tapes; Timothy McVeigh’s truck bomb; astronauts in space; an escaped criminal fleeing the rabbit’s warren of court buildings and parking garages in downtown Atlanta; airplanes crashing into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center–that we almost take for granted that it will be there. And we become irritated and suspicious when it is not.What the Red Lake massacre reminds us is that, even in our highly urbanized, electronically monitored nation, there still are remote places that are a challenge for newsmen and newswomen to reach.
The majority of Americans are unaware that most of the information that they take for granted as the Gospel Truth is in fact propaganda. It is neither objective, nor is it news, nor is it the truth. It is simply intened to confirm what they already believe, or to proffer an agenda dictated by either the government or business, or both.
Of course, try telling this to your average conservative (or a liberal for that matter) and likely you will be insulted and attacked by the conservatives and called “boring” by the liberals. A sure sign of herd poisoning if ever there was one.
