Someone Asks A Question “What Piece Of Media Is Just Straight Up Propaganda?”, Gets Responses From 30 Folks Online

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When your most popular anchor has been taken to court, and Fox Entertainment says no sensible person would take his statements as fact, and "given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism", then you know your show is responsible for s**t content.

Just add every main stream media to this, no need to call out just one.

This is the 1st one? But no mention of cnn, the worst one? Yikes, you guys are out of touch Why aren't you debunking cnn's lies? Because that would be an actual job, right, and not these bad lists you always make.

Mainstream Media* in general (including Fox). FTFY

That's not a feel good story. That's an indictment of the American medical system.

I stopped reading all the good news threads here on BP for that reason. It's quite depressing.

I don't know if this is "propaganda".

Why is that propaganda? Yeah the system is crud but the people are doing what they can to help. We shouldn't downplay human kindness.

Yeah everyone who a contestant is homeless,injured,broke or lost someone

As Amanda Marshall once put it "Everyone's got a story that could break your heart."

I miss when these shows were really about just finding someone who never had a chance who was really talented and they made it here. Now it's this machine that is all about the sob story. And half the contestants have managers and PR reps already. Kelly Clarkson came out to LA and tried to get a record deal and no one would sign her because she wasn't 'hot' enough. Carrie Underwood lived on a farm. Now we have straight up Broadway stars auditioning. It's annoying. I miss the idea of the little guy having a chance to win. So they have to have these false sad stories. It's like a damn pet rescue. "This one was hit by a car but he'll still love you!"

Omg I knew one of the sob-story people irl, and he was so fkn phony on TV with fake tears and everything, uggggh I'm annoyed all over again

I live in the uk and was honestly shocked when I visited America and saw some of these ads pop up on tv. In the uk our GP prescribes us a medication when we need it but we don't really get a say on what type we get (unless it's linked to an allergy or other provable issue) it's so strange to think of these "ask your doctor about X drug" on tv. If we did that here the general response would be " you get this or nothing" but the medication usually works so it rarely causes an issue.

Benzos like Xanax are incredibly addictive and are only safe to take for a short time. But people take them for years and need to keep upping the amount to get the same effect. I'm with you.

I have been saying this for years. My doctor would smack me if I suggested I should change my meds because of a commercial. Capitalism at its finest.

The disclaimers saying not to take a medication if you're allergic to any of the ingredients. If I've never taken it, how am I supposed to know?

Love those commercials for designer rheumatoid arthritis medication. Those featuring well off people stretching their limbs, picking up their kids, exercising, doing garden work, improving their golf swing, etc. I'd love to see on of those commercials featuring some guy working in a pizza restaurant doing tedious and repetitive work for minimum wage...

This sums up LinkedIn and how full of BS a lot of its users are. Image comes from Reddit VADER-62a7...9bb680.jpg

Or even worse "I am grateful"

Oh god

🙄 LOL

Dammit. Just take the vote

I can't upvote this enough

I'm sitting here wondering, if I should even touch this with a 10-foot pole, but hey, I like to live dangerously. Anyway...I was thinking about THIS exact thing yesterday as my husband wanted to go to the cinema (with me of course) to see...Top Gun, Maverick. In any case, to us it was hilarious bc there was an incident a few years back with American jet fighters and a small Swiss military runway surrounded by ...you can guess it... mountains. 🤣🤣 However I won't spoil the story for those who haven't seen it. It was an ok story and by the end I was wondering, if the US Navy and/ or Air Force once again get a boost in manpower bc people want to go to Top Gun just like in the movie. I remember there was an article stating after the first Top Gun movie a lot joined the military bc they've seen the film. Kind of like a two hour advertisement for the US Navy 🤣😇 (I hope I didn't offend anyone...)

In Lord of War (excellent movie, and very much anti-war) the production bought 3.000 real rifles because they were *cheaper than prop guns* (!!!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War#Production

While generally correct that is not entirely true though. There is no law or rule forcing movie productions to cooperate with the DoD. Beside this being limited to the situation in the US, there´s plenty of military material in private hands to be used instead, though of course the question is what you define as "modern". Also the picture shows German Empire stuff.

The US Air Force used to work hand in hand with Hollywood, but a couple of movies that were made didn't portray the USAF in a positive light, so the USAF quit helping them. Iron Eagle was made using a lot of stock footage of Israeli aircraft. The movies in question were "By Dawn's Early Light" and "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game". Both made pilots out to be womanizers and drunks, so the USAF (which is ran by fighter pilots) quit helping. I will admit that a lot of the military movies caused people to want to join, but most of the stuff portrayed is BS.

This has been true since the inception of movies. Until America decided to pick a side and enter WWII, Hollywood was forbidden was forbidden to portray Hitler in a bad light.

When I visited the US for the first time, I think I was 18 or so, I joined my cousin (10 times removed 🤣) for one day in High School. And let me tell you, THIS freaked me tf out! 😳 for someone not knowing what's going on this is really scary. Mind you, right before my vacation in the US we've been extensively going over the Nazi regime and their indoctrinating mechanisms in the history lessons at school (in Switzerland). This was more than 20 years ago, to this day I remember the feeling of beeing scared out of my mind! The rest wasn't so bad, but this stayed with me for a long time.

its funny because the only other country that does it is north korea

I once went to an american school for a few weeks and refused to read on the grounds of not being an american citizen. Teachers were mad. as. hell.

So weird, I honestly thought that was just a movie/tv cliche. If they tried doing something like that here in the UK there would probably be a huge backlash and parents pulling their kids out of school. The primary school I went to made us say a prayer every day before lunch (church school) and a few years ago some of my classmates successfully sued the school for forcing them to pray and discrimination. Don't think they got a lot of money but I wonder if any Americans have tried this for the "allegiance pledge"

and the addition of "under god" which wasn't in it originally

Serves me right for not scrolling down further 🤣🙈 I've already said my piece... 😇

It has Tom Cruise in it. Not worth seeing.

YVAN EHT NIOJ

I've promised my dad to take him to see Maverick for Father's Day. I really don't wanna go. I'd rather stand in line at the DMV.

Yeah, this one I'm not touching with a 10-foot pole! Just too many sensibilities connected to this. 😇

big oil funded too

Murdoch gave tons of money to Ronald Reagan's campaign in the '80s. In return, Murdoch got U.S. citizenship and the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which spawned the gigantic clubhouse for liars known as Fox News

Yup, always was crud!