Tom Fenton reveals: How media and politics deliberately dumb down Americans

„Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world. Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don’t have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations… Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don’t believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees.“

Tom FentonTom Fenton criticizes how media and politicians deliberately dumb down the public with simplified information, avoiding complex truths.
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Tom Fenton is an American filmmaker and writer known for his critical views on media and politics.

This quote strikingly reveals how media and politics manipulate the public by deliberately under-informing them to avoid complex truths.


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