Media

I was recently called a "sheep" by a right-wing relative because I follow the crowd and believe anything I hear on mainstream media. This was of course in response to my disagreeing with something he heard from Rush, Fox or or some other spigot of the propaganda pipeline. What he doesn't know is that I haven't paid attention to ANY domestic mainstream media for over a decade. I surprised him by totally agreeing with his assessment of the unreliability of the American mainstream, and went on to say that if you really want accurate facts, you have to go to an outside source. Domestic media always has the potential to be biased, but a country will usually report accurately on it's neighbors since there's no motive to skew the facts. There's no political gain.

Since his information pipeline obviously has the diameter of a drinking straw, he had no reply.