Eight years ago I was constantly hounded even here on FR because I posted information that the MSM said was “crazy conspiracy theory”. The argument was that what I was saying would make FR look “batshit crazy”.
People wanted to seem credible so they only wanted “credible” sources here. “Credible” meant MSM.
In retrospect yes, people were stupid. But at the time they just thought they were “normal”.
We truly have come a long way. But in the early days of people waking up, the most intense fire was “friendly fire”.
I appreciate the history and perspective. I must have been living in a bubble for the last 24 years because I gave up ALL mainstream media as a source of news and truth in the months following the 2000 Presidential election. That’s when I first saw them openly take sides, rather than merely report, and when I found my way to Free Republic. I’ve been oblivious to what the legacy media believe, report and promote since then, and only learn of their positions when I hear them from others or catch a stray headline as I’m scouring the internet for real information and truth. I’m disappointed to learn that so many on the world stage have been fooled by the MSM for so very long when it was obvious to some of us decades ago that they could no longer be trusted. At least they’re finally catching up!