Reply #6: Most Americans do not get the facts about what is happening [View All]

And have no way of knowing that what they see on the network nightly news is propaganda rather than reality. They are no so much apathetic as unknowing. My parents get their news from local papers in their extremely conservative corner of Florida, watch network news almost exclusively, and have almost no other sources for information. I can't blame them for having a conservation view of the world as much for those factors as for their age (88 and 90).

Many young people (like my nieces and nephews) are less invested in the belief that the network news is the truth. They don't remember Walter Cronkite and how trustworthy he seemed to all of us. They watch Jon Stewart, read news on the internet from international sources, and are getting a much better idea of what is really going on. That gives me hope.