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Americans Know No Truth
The elites and the US government subvert the public by any means necessary, and we know more lies than facts.
Freedom of the press has always been an illusion — surveillance, censorship, propaganda, subversion, and doublespeak fool Americans into believing anything.
“If it surprises and perhaps angers a certain type of reader to hear it said that America is one of the most misinformed countries in the civilized world — paradoxically with one of the freest presses in the world — I would like to call three or four of the thousands of most reliable witnesses, living and dead, to confirm the indictment.” — The People Don’t Know, George Seldes, 1949
Politicians, merchants, and elites who owned printing companies tailored the news for American aristocrats because newspapers were for the rich until the high-speed press mass-produced affordable newspapers for the working class, and profits for the media moguls.
When journalists rapidly increased readership by writing stories to appeal to working people, William Randolph Hearst seized the opportunity to invest his inheritance in a syndicate of newspapers reaching 20% of the population. Hearst disseminated sensational, scandalous, nationalistic tales to increase revenue and outright lies to protect financial…
