What is the purpose of news?
To inform the public?
Hardly. The sole purpose of news is to keep the public in a state of fear and uncertainty so that they"ll watch again tomorrow and be subjected to the same advertising.
If everybody believes something, it's probably wrong. We call that Conventional Wisdom.
In America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance is usually contrived: somebody paid for it. Examples:
* Pharmaceuticals restore health
* Vaccination brings immunity
* The cure for cancer is just around the corner
* When a child is sick, he needs immediate antibiotics
* When a child has a fever he needs Tylenol
* Hospitals are safe and clean.
* America has the best health care in the world.
* And many many more
This is a list of illusions, that have cost billions and billions to conjure up.
Did you ever wonder why you never see the President speaking publicly unless he is reading?
Or why most people in this country think generally the same about most of the above issues?
Not one to turn down a challenge, he set up the advertising format along with the AMA that lasted for nearly 50 years proving that cigarettes are beneficial to health. Just look at ads in issues of Life or Time from the 40s and 50s.
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