If the following meme is true (and I believe that it is), then whom do we trust?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

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I mean, really? Whom or what source of information do we trust? Whom do you trust?

Is it the same in Britain? Germany? Israel? Australia?


ETA: Thanks to FairWinds for pointing out my glaring grammatical error, which apparently glared so brightly as to blind me.

[merrily]

1. I'll tell you who I do not trust: those in govt. who changed monopoly laws and regulations to

allow this to happen.

Companies had to get government permission for certain types of acquisitions and mergers. Once upon a time, anti-trust laws and regulations looked at who was taking over which kind of business and denied permission if, say, one or just a few companies acquiring all the car dealerships in the US, thereby taking away consumer choice, influence and bargaining power.

But then, govt. changed the test so that the type of business was not much of a consideration, if any. Govt. decisions about acquisitions and mergers focused instead on dollar amounts. The dollar amounts keep getting raised, too. And now, preventing monopolies is pretty much dead. So, the people who seem to love invoking Teddy Roosevelt probably need to stop invoking him because anti-trust was very very important to him.

[elleng]

2. Right, government regulators, sanctioned by the administrations in power,

have enabled this to happen.

Teddy Roosevelt was THE MAN, and his wise policies have been undermined in recent years.

[merrily]

4. Yes, along with the policies of his cousin, Franklin.

We are being deprived of the some of the best economic policies of the Republican Party and of the Democratic Party.

"The Center Holds," but what?

(Apologies to Jonathan Alter for abusing his phrase.)

[Snobblevitch]

3. The Communications Act of 1996

pretty much destroyed local radio. It made it possible for corporations to buy up radio and TV stations where before they were limited in how many they could own.

However this has nothing to do with broadcasting networks or cable networks.

[elleng]

5. It has to do with broadcasting, logically anyway,

not directly with cable; they let THAT cat out of the bag, or more correctly never 'caught' it, later. We've been skunked ever since.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

7. Who signed that ???

WJC

one of the many things she will not fight

[hunter]

6. There is a choice: drop out of "mass media."

I only subscribe to our local paper. I know its biases well. Our local weekly is fairly decent.

Television and radio news is worthless. My television is a movie player. That's all it does. No satellite, cable, or broadcast.

Of my internet news sources, I know their biases too.

I have a begrudging respect for people who don't follow the news at all. Being uninformed is a couple of steps above being misinformed.

Conversations with utter non-voting airheads who don't know who their local government representatives are, who the vice President is, or have nothing to say about Trump, these I find preferable to conversations with CNN junkies or sewage lagoon dwelling Fox "News" viewers.

Years ago I had a friend who was an artist with hot glass. She never paid any attention to "the news" and I used to tease her a little about that.

Older and more experience, I wouldn't now.

In her domain she's made many people happy with her art, selling just enough of it to support herself too.

I've not accomplished so much in my political activism, by my awareness of current events, at least not that I know of.

[lark]

8. Yes

Where's that nonexistent liberal press I hear so much about, oh yeah, it's virtually non-existent. So 90% owned by the 1% and 10% owned by who? No wonder so many things aren't covered in the msm. It's not in their profits interests.

[FairWinds]

9. Should be "WHOM do we trust?"

And the answer is Veterans For Peace . .

For all your peace and grammar queries !!

Humor alert !

Common Dreams & Informed Comment are not bad either.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

15. You are correct, of course. I try to catch myself making grammar mistakes like this.

I let this one fly right on by me despite having consciously worked through the correct usage a time or three in the past.

Egh...smh. Thanks for the friendly reminder, FairWinds.

[SmittynMo]

10. It's not necessarily "what they tell you".

It's more like "What they don't tell you". A perfect example is Bernie Sanders.

MSM and CM are hush hush about the best candidate out there. Wouldn't you want that to be your top story every day?

Why do they do this? Because they can. I trust nothing from MSM , or CM (Corporate Media). NOTHING!!!

[whereisjustice]

11. The same corporations who tell us Hillary is the only Democratic Candidate.

[SmittynMo]

12. Bingo!!! n/t

[uriel1972]

13. Rupert owns most of the print in Australia...

And has an extreme amount of influence over the country... not happy.

[gregcrawford]

14. Corporatism is...

... the bubonic plague, ebola, rabies, AIDS, and every cancer there is, all rolled into one malevolent hairball of undiluted evil.

And yet the hand-wringers whine, "but what can we do?" Even the room-temperature IQs that constitute the conservative "base" are angry about many of the same things; they're just too dirt stupid to realize they're pissed at the wrong people.

It's going to be a battle, and it's going to be bloody, you can bet, but NOT doing something is a trillion times worse. And letting a Republican foul the White House simply is NOT an option. If we do nothing, our children and grandchildren will have every right to hate us with the heat of a thousand suns.

[Scuba]

16. “The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship ...

“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957