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I am curious to find out as to how many people think that there is true freedom of speech in the US major media and as to how many people think that they cannot be easily brainwashed.
When you hear people saying things that are totally against their self-interest, I cannot think of any logical reason why a person would say such things unless the person is brainwashed. In a smaller scale, a person who applauds any state action that is against his or her self-interest is similar to a suicide bomber who kills himself to please a leader. They both are committing an action that is against their interest.

I grew up in the Third World where the government controls the press. The good thing about a system like that is almost every citizen, save the dumbest, knows that the press is full of lies. They just read the news for entertainment. But in America things are way sophisticated. The government has no hand in controlling the press except a government that gives welfare to the corporations that control the press; in that situation such a government controls the press indirectly. And under a condition like that only the very insightful people would recognize the bias in the US major media to help out a handful of people in the country at the expense of the whole society.
You don't have to go too far to see that. Take a look at the US budget. Tax rates at the top are coming down decreasing the revenue of the country. Social security tax, a flat tax that all people pay, is going up. Also such social security taxes that should be kept in a trust account is not kept accordingly. But they are also used to balance the budget. And that's why the social security system will go bankrupt sooner or later; they are also being spent as part of the welfare scheme.
Then look at where these taxes are being spent. About $400 billion of such dollars go to defense contractors (with a small percentage of that going to brave soldiers who defend the country). Another huge percentage goes to pharmaceutical companies. Very little goes to education or to help out the have-nots. Also let's not forget that when government cannot tax enough people to get money to give away to this handful of people they borrow the rest. Do you hear any outrage in the major media about these issues? Media gets its advertising revenue as these giveaways trickle down to them so the media owners can get their huge bonuses. They all add up to only one thing. It is not possible to have freedom of speech in the major media.
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