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i'm a busy man so need a newspaper that gives it to me straight and filters out the shit that i don't need, like balanced arguments, so i can get on with believing pretty much everything i read. highlighted key points and simple language make it easy to regurgitate the opinions i'm shown. it's less time-consuming and intellectually challenging than actually bothering to form my own. so give me xenophobic, uninformed, sensationalist views, all simplified, that's how i take my news. and hold the polysyllabics, they just serve to make me confused.
so what if there's an agenda? who cares about a lie or two? or a lack of a source or quote or fact? they wouldn't print it if it wasn't true.
the large font and basic sentences and opinions presented as facts in every story mean i don't have to waste effort actually thinking i just let the paper make up my mind for me. and they know their readers' minds so keep the words simple and small when making unsubstantiated claims - ignorant, reactionary, limited vocabulary, and a tendency to not engage the brain. so i don't question the un-named sources' suspiciously succinct quotes or unfounded allegations they wrote, i just open wide and let the bullshit get rammed down my throat. so what if there's an agenda? who cares about lie or two? or a lack of a source or quote or fact? they wouldn't print it if it wasn't true, so i take it all at face value, and continue buying into each bullshit issue.
you might say i'm gullible, easily led, cos i believe every word i read and every quote that 'one insider said' but i guess i just fail to see the blatant political agenda, the sweeping generalisations, and the thinly disguised right-wing propaganda, they look like cold hard facts to me. i only need one source of information, it tells me all that's wrong with our great nation is caused by binge-drinking and immigration and why should i doubt what they print? so me and ten million other sheep will carry on with our brains half-asleep, we'll keep on avoiding thinking too deep, we'll just let other people keep telling us what to think.
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