I’m well informed, thank you, but I’m sure I could always improve on that. Do you have a good newspaper that you recommend? What news sources are sufficient, in your opinion, to make one well-informed? By the way, don’t you think a smart grown-up can filter and assess as they read, thus making even a less-than-perfect source somewhat informative? I’d like the benefit of the doubt, that I am a critical reader.
The fact is propaganda is very effective both good and bad. Unfortunately we usually don't know until years later whether what we accepted as true, really is. In many cases we will never know.
In the end we will accept some version that we can live with.
A quote from Chuck Missler I often remember is, "The greatest barrier to the truth is to believe we already have it."
Case in point, the Flynn story, most here accept that Flynn lied and had to be punished. I contend that it is a B$ cover story, maybe we will know for a fact someday, maybe not, but some version will be accepted and recorded when absolutely no evidence exists that any of it is true.
I hope you caught the presser today, Trump called out the WSJ today for publishing a lie on their front page. Put them in the same class as the failing NYT.