A great example ... of the American press deliberately (and skillfully) manipulating its audience. A gullible and intellectually shallow American public starts treating it as fact (and that is exactly what happened with that documentary).
Things like this are what has made me so careful about how my news is sourced these days. Most of what I read is not mainstream media, but alternative sources that are most commonly overt and honest about their biases – and I read sources with opposing biases so I can get all sides of an issue. I've been doing this for years now, so it's become habitual. I don't know any other way to have any chance at all of actually understanding the world, rather than being fooled by our self-proclaimed “elite”...
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