We have a client who gets all his news from NPR and CNN and Yahoo. He thinks any war is far in the future. He doesn't think there is any connection between Reuters, AP and what he consumes as *news*. He is intelligent, a compassionate liberal and even as he finds out various bitter truths in the leftwing *community*, he denies that it means anything or can be extrapolated beyond one person or, at most, two.
I wouldn't characterize him as a moonbat, but he is indicative of how otherwise intelligent people can be duped by the concerted media barrage.
My husband tended like that when I married him. He thought I was crazy when I said the MSM was oriented left. When we went into Iraq in 2002, he would listen to CNN coverage at the gym while he worked out. He would come saying awful things about the progress of the war. Then he would sit down with me and watch Fox News. He was quite surprised at the difference in coverage. He had watched and liked Brit Hume for many years. So, ultimately, it was Brit's credibility that convinced my beloved that the MSM was indeed extremely biased. He's still liberal in many ways, but he's a lot more informed and doesn't fall for the misinformation he finds on MSM and CNN.