We already know that a lie repeated often enough is presumed to be a fact. And yet the media is the fuel for what passes for "intellectual" activity in the West. Consuming it is like smoking cigarettes: people are fully aware that it poisoning them but do it anyway with zeal -- perhaps all the more zeal since they've gone all-in with their own self-destruction.
Human nature is a bizarre thing and, just because much of this is lost on most people does not mean it is lost at all on the masters of the media.
I should clarify that those who are aware of what the media does continue to consume it despite; and of course many are simply unaware...
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2014/10/20/the-new-york-times-unrepentant-communist-enabler-n1907581/print
In April of 1959--amidst an appalling bloodbath of Cubans by firing squad ordered by Fidel Castro but mostly administered by his ever-faithful Igor, Che Guevara--Castro made a special visit to the New York Times offices in New York.
After a warm greeting from Arthur Hayes Sulzberger a beaming Fidel Castro personally decorated a beaming Herbert Matthews with a specially-minted medal expressing his bloody regime’s highest honor.
“To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude,” beamed Castro as the flashbulbs popped. “Without your help, and without the help of the New York Times, the Revolution in Cuba would never have been.”
The support of the NYT for communists tyrants is not new. Remember Walter Duranty, the NYT bureau chief in Moscow who denied to the world the existence of the genocide by hunger of millions of Ukrainian peasants by order of Stalin.
Hebert Matthews, Fidel's Favorite Propagandist
How a New York Times reporter's passion for Castro led him astray.
http://reason.com/archives/2007/02/28/fidels-favorite-propagandist