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I've tried watching a few different US news channels over the years. I think the most insulting part was that you actually call it "News"

I'm not one to throw random, overused terms around the internet but your most popular channel (Fox) is literal propaganda and social conditioning.

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All of the three-letter networks are the same. Modern 'news' is a concoction of outrage porn and propaganda designed to keep us watching at all costs. Political polarization is at an all-time high. It's a mess

You think CNN and Fox are the same? I mean sure, CNN didn't exactly report critically on any of the Iraq wars, and I'm sure there's lots of pro-gov and pro-corporate stuff like that. But Fox is literally a propaganda channel for one of the two political parties, only barely masquerading as news.

CNN, NPR all host army psy-ops personnel in their newsrooms https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/12/julianborger

CNN is also propaganda, it's just propaganda for positions that are closer to the truth. Same way that in WW2 both the US and the Nazis had propaganda, but the US propaganda was (much) closer to the truth.

In any case, it's a million times better to come to those conclusions via an unbiased source than via a biased source like CNN.

> but the US propaganda was (much) closer to the truth.

You mean all those racist caricatures of Japanese?

They were absolutely abhorrent, but weren't as bad as the German caricatures of Jews, or the Roma, or the Slavs. I said closer to the thruth, not close to the truth.

"Fiery but mostly peaceful protests"

CNN is no better than fox in the realm of propaganda. I'm assuming you are a strongly DNC leaning person if you have trouble identifying the problem with CNN and yet are quite passionate about identifying it with fox.

It does feel like it's at an all-time high, yet also nowhere near its peak.

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