Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Scepticism and questioning are good.

But paranoid inventions, social media trolling, denial of historic events and achievements (moon landings, the ISS, vaccine suppression of killer diseases), fabricated 'evidence' to back political or social agendas, outright racism and sexism posing as independent thought, and a constant attack on people who have become experts in a field and know things in favour of morons who have never mastered a subject and know nothing.... are not good.

The attack on experts and the 'conspiracy theories' that they are all on some sinister (WEF?) payroll seeped out of the alt right social media sphere and ended up with Michael Gove! The experts who should be called out are the ones in the pockets of Big Oil and Big Pharma - but they are the ones (along with Truthpaste's sad stable) who are championed by political conspiracy theorists.

This may all be some part of culture wars - but to my mind it is much more about a political struggle for hearts and minds.
I think many things we are told are open to debate. If our own political parties lie to the electorate then no wonder the electorate has misgivings about what is reported.

The problem is , because many people have been brainwashed by the media ( both for and against) then it’s difficult to understand the reality especially when a significant portion of conspiracy theories are at worst half truths.

What is certain though is the UK media are hardly impartial which is what it should be.