Is our media nothing but a propaganda machine?

[Missourian]

Once you've got everyone distrusting the media, then it takes only a little push if you can give them something that they feel like they can trust.

In Trump's case, he's got Breitbart to be his propaganda arm, because one of their main people is now in his cabinet. Once he gets people to trust Breitbart, then it's simple to manipulate the public. Why? Nobody trusts the media anymore, or, if it's something they don't like (but true), they will point to all the other times that particular news outlet got something wrong.

Just watch..................in around 6 months or so, Breitbart is gonna be his main media outlet, just like FOX News was the media outlet of the Republican party for the past few years.

Breitbart has a lot of work to do to achieve a "trusted" rating from me, and we're on the same team. Caught them more than once twisting a story. Never read them.

Give it time, you've gotta discredit all the other American news agencies first, THEN you can start building up confidence in your own particular media brand.

American News Agencies discredit themselves by submitting false information as true news stories. "Journalist" doesn't mean passing on information unvetted...I can train a baboon to do that. The national media allows itself to be used as a propaganda tool over and over again, wittingly or unwittingly. FACT: The Washington Post would not have been as quick nor as eager to run with the Russian Power Grid story if it didn't bolster their liberal narrative.

PS - After the truth came out, WaPo was forced to retract the story completely in a second article:

As federal officials investigate suspicious Internet activity found last week on a Vermont utility computer, they are finding evidence that the incident is not linked to any Russian government effort to target or hack the utility, according to experts and officials close to the investigation.

An employee at Burlington Electric Department was checking his Yahoo email account Friday and triggered an alert indicating that his computer had connected to a suspicious IP address associated by authorities with the Russian hacking operation that infiltrated the Democratic Party. Officials told the company that traffic with this particular address is found elsewhere in the country and is not unique to Burlington Electric, suggesting the company wasn’t being targeted by the Russians. Indeed, officials say it is possible that the traffic is benign, since this particular IP address is not always connected to malicious activity.

Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility, say people close to investigation​