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Reddit mentions of Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East
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I have to disagree with you on this.
Is being ill-informed unintelligent? An intelligent person can still lack information. Even the smartest of people can't know of a top level secret without a whistleblower and they certainly won't know whats happening across the world from them without being informed of it truthfully. This is the purpose of the press. To inform the people whether they are smart dumb, black, white, fat, skinny, etc.
We can measure the accuracy of media and hold media outlets and corporations accountable. We can and do study the political economy of media. The idea of a free press is not a "lofty" standard. We can measure how media outlets told the truth at the moment of truth. This is not immeasurable. In fact the as of February 12th 2014, the United States is ranked 46th in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
If one person watches Fox News and another watches Jon Stewart it isn't that one is smarter than the other (not that it matters) it is that both are being subjected to "infotainment". This is not news that informs the voter. The real problem is that American journalists do their jobs the way corporate media expects them to. For profit. This does not align with the 1st amendment. A free press is not founded in profit. A free press creates a free dialogue and populous. A for profit system creates customers. Thats why Fox news lovers love Fox and Daily Show lovers love Stewart. Each mother company that profits from them holds profit as the ultimate ideology.
I recommend checking out Robert McChesney's Political Economy of Media, and Digital Disconnect (same author) and Richard Falk's Israel-Palentine on Record. Also follow [FAIR],(http://fair.org/) [Democracy Now] (www.democracynow.org/)! or if you are lazy/have some time check this video out.
TD;LR: Corporate media creates ill informed voters. Yadda, yadda, yadda, liberal college student, yadda yadda yadda, Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent.
Have you heard of this book at all?