Reply #77: The Reagan era did it for me. [View All]

I was only 10 when he got elected, but watching the way the media handled him, Iran-Contra, and the arms-for-cocaine thing showed me what BS my TV was selling.

I remember listening to a Jello Biafra spoken word record in which he detailed the facts of the CIA trading arms with the Contras for coke, and then selling the coke in California. I doubted the story, because I'd never heard about it. Then it was on the cover of Time magazine--many years after the fact. That was a milestone for me.

Probably the one story that had the effect of completely poisoning my view of the MSM was the completely fictional "incubator babies" story that PR firm Hill & Knowlton trumped up for the Kuwaiti royal family, and which the entire nation swallowed and most still believe.