Tom Tomorrow: How the "news" works.

[Scuba]

[underpants]

1. Government propaganda on behalf of those who will profit

If you want to take it to the root

[KurtNYC]

2. Am-news-ia

[newthinking]

3. And we still keep buying it each time it happens. Question every war narrative

[Fred Sanders]

5. Folks are too busy being frightened by the headlines and too entertained by "cloud" bursts to spare

the time.

Now the scary headlines can be tweeted and alerted. Naturally, that system is set up with no room for details, just the headlines most only read any way.

[truth2power]

28. And yet the official Obama Administration narrative of what's happening

in Ukraine is accepted, here, as gospel truth without a scintilla of evidence, and those trying to get the truth out are ridiculed.

Curious, isn't it?

[newthinking]

32. I think it is a very vocal but small contingent here.

It is pretty clear from the progressive blog-sphere that many progressives are not buying the propaganda.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Kicked x1000, and recommended for all unlikely voters x30 million more or less.

[Laelth]

6. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[imthevicar]

7. This will Probobly get me Banned

Meet the new Boss, Same as the old Boss.

[tkmorris]

10. That will SO not get you banned

[baldguy]

18. This 'toon is from 2007, yet some people act as if it was from yesterday.

[Ikonoklast]

19. Change some country's names around, it could be 1898.

[truth2power]

29. Umm...that's exactly the point..

It's as pertinent today as it was yesterday; it doesn't matter the specific news article being displayed.

Why is it so difficult for some people to understand something conceptually?

[ctsnowman]

8. Nailed it.

[SHRED]

9. Here's another way it "works" on the local level

They'll run a story for a week or so and then hit the streets for the public's reaction. Surprise!! Most opinions mirror what they heard on the news. And the citizens talk as if they came up with their own view... lol.

[Gothmog]

11. Great cartoon

[valerief]

12. The Cycle of Life for controlling the masses. nt

[Iwillnevergiveup]

13. Tom Tomorrow

a force of nature.

[Paladin]

14. It's absolutely tragic, how accurate this editorial cartoon is.

We never seem to learn, do we?

[hifiguy]

16. The one lesson history teaches is

that people never learn the lessons of history.

[Paladin]

17. By God, if the U.S. stands for nothing else, it stands for that. (nt)

[hifiguy]

15. 'twas ever thus.

Sad to say.

[ZombieHorde]

20. This cartoon conforms to by biases,

so I will recommend it.

[Major Hogwash]

21. I see your recommendation and raise you by saving it to my hard drive.

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Otherwise known as "I am so stealing this" at the DU forum.

[Hissyspit]

22. Rinse/Repeat

[MaggieD]

23. Well he's right, except

.. about the part where they admitted they were wrong. They never do that. You're just supposed to agree to forget that part.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. This is the expected result of the Republicans taking over the media after Vietnam and Watergate.

[heaven05]

25. excellent and true

and our politicians lap it up and vote to go into those scary places. Yes Democrats, also. And just because she said she was wrong doesn't make it right.

[archaic56]

26. watching with a cyncial grin

as one who is Native American(First Nations right name)watching the karma run over dogma and folks still be so self absorbed they don't even acknowledge that which they disagree with .. I've no hope for this world.. selfishness needs to become extinct and all the people who feel that way go with it..
your news is like a dog leash


of course we knew this ages back.. good luck

[heaven05]

27. slap!!!

[sabrina 1]

30. Lol! 'We believe them'! And anyone who says it isn't true, are MORONS, they might have been good

good journalists a year ago, but they are all washed up NOW, just looking for attention! We KOW what to expect from THEM, they are Iraq/Iran/Pootie lovers who never have anything good to say about America!'

Same old story. .

[99Forever]

31. Same game, different worst boogeyman EVER!

Rinse, repeat.