Media Consultant Joel Silberman
Media consultant Joel Silberman explains why Americans are so misinformed about just about anything political. Silberman said the fault should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the mainstream media for perpetuating the “big lie.”
Silberman’s theory is that the right-wing echo chamber repeats the “big lie” over and over again until it becomes the Truth. The big lie is actually lots of untruths. Obama is a communist. The recession was caused by the Democrats, despite Republican control of both the Executive and Congress. Government is always the problem and can never ever do anything right.
The same situation was on display prior to the war with Iraq when a majority of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11.
I agree with Silberman, but the problem with American gullibility is rooted in their animosity to critical thinking and education. However, never before have we had a 24-hour news channel dedicated to promoting the big lie, and like Silberman said, forcing other news organizations to acknowledge the lie, therefore, giving it credence.
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You mention America’s animosity toward learning and intellectuals, but I don’t think this is a traditional characteristic of our country. In fact it seems to have been an additional effect of the noise machine; that experts and science aren’t to be trusted, and learning is somehow suspect.
You might be right, perhaps we’ve not always been anti-intellectuals, but we certainly are now. Too many people lap up the claptrap spewing from the right-wing echo chamber with nary a moment of doubt. We now have a 24-hour news channel dedicated to lying to the American people and it’s the most popular news channel by far.
There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.
The scary thing is that if this problem is rooted in a failure to educate people to tease out bullshit and seek truth, we aren’t going to be able to solve this overnight. This is generational and we may never recover.