“The MSM isn’t really Main Stream at all....and frankly I’m not going to use that term anymore.”
How about “lamestream misleadia?”
Dangerous? I don’t know how to rank them against the schools, the State Department, and the courts. And, of course, our endless ocean of leftist bureaucrats.
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side. (...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula."
"Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good.........the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution."
I happen to think that history repeats. And I also happen to think that today's American media is the most dangerous...to America today. They are decidedly Left Wing. They control up to 90% of what is being "told" to the regular people...and they are responsible for untold, and countless errors, deflections, shadings, lies, about those they wish to destroy.
FWIW-