Is distrust of the media arguably not a good thing these days when it has been shown time and again all media outlets are not reporting news impartially, but instead peddling the agenda of whoever their paymaster is.
It's a sad state of affairs we cannot trust them to be impartial but we should no longer trust that, whatever side of the debate they sit.
Well not it isn't necessarily, I'd much rather the likes of the BBC and CNN had a bit more integrity when initially reporting these sorts of things instead of jumping on the bandwagon, slanting things in favour of identity politics - in reality there was a group of "Israelites" shouting out racist and homophobic slurs, there were some adult native Americans trying to intimidate some school boys, including telling them to **** off back to Europe and there were ether kids, some of them bemused by the crazy Native American man squaring up and drumming/chanting in people's faces... the focus of the story became some random teenager the native randomly chose to square up to and his horrible crime seems to have been - smirking, being white and having right wing political views....
This **** storm then caused countless celebs etc.. to condemn him, demand action from the school etc..etc.. No focus in the story on the people being openly racist, they were briefly mentioned by CNN as African Americans who were preaching the bible nearby. No questioning of the Native American's version of events, no commentary from the side of the boys etc.. there have since been some edits to the stories though the Native American guy who blatantly lied about the whole thing isn't being called out and the kids are still the focus of it all.
This then became an easy takedown for various youtubers - the problem here is that in a lot of other cases the likes of the BBC, CNN etc.. are absolutely fine as sources of news... however if they keep on undermining trust in their content then more people will be driven more towards alternative media - when you've got people watching the likes of RT or InfoWars or random youtubers (and of course once you start down that rabbit hole youtube just recommends more of the same content) you can end up with a rather narrow perspective on the world.
This is applicable not just to right wing types but all sorts of views.... for an example of some of the crazy reactions to this on social media, apparently simply smirking, while being white, is "racist" - this is a post that has been shared a few thousand times - it is nuts, though the MSM have fed this... the poster acknowledges that the boy didn't shout, rage, threaten or even lift a finger... yet the boy is the racist one apparently because he smiled/smirked when someone approached him and squared up.
this is from a blue checkmark person on twitter - another claim that smirking is apparently "Racist"
