[Lazamataz]

WE got our first television in the 1950’s when everybody was getting their tvs. I remember watching the news with my family. We only had one tv so we all watched the same thing. In all those years it never occured to me that anyone on the news could be lying to us. I started questioning the democrats in the 1970s when I started voting. One time I saw a Massachusetts politician telling a bold face lie on television and my jaw dropped. I could not believe that Tip O’Neil would lie. I knew it was a lie and I just couldn’t believe that the speaker of the House would lie.

I have a fun story.

Back in the 1970's, our TV was a manual-dial channel selector, and in Rochester, NY, we happened to have our three major channels quite close to one another. The channels were 8, 10, and 13.

So, I'd watch the 6:30PM National News on one channel, get bored, and switch to another, then another.

I began to notice that all three news affiliates were running the exact same story at the exact same time, with almost identical copy.

It became a game for me, I'd try to spin the manual channel changer dial so quickly that I could get the anchormen to complete one another's sentences.

The news has been coordinated and served as propaganda since I was a small child, maybe before.

[cradle of freedom]

Thanks. That is a great story. You have to spread it all over. Many years ago I remember reading a tv Guide story about the news coverage. It said what you are saying that all the networks reported the same news at the same time. I believe it said that the tv news got its stories from the New York Times. I have been trying to force myself to watch some of the network news and I noticed that the covid story would lead and the other channels would follow. The top story would be like the top headlines on the front page. It is considered the most important story so this is what they want Americans to really focus on.