Please remove all tin foil hats before entering the Serious board.

I swear to god the next time I hear someone start blabbering about tinfoil hats because someone questioned the actions of a state, I'm going to scalp the fucker.

Just because it's scary and unsettling doesn't make it untrue and it doesn't make anyone crazy. He's not talking about alien lizard people controlling the world economy, or DA JOOS, he's talking about government manipulation of mass media, which is really not all that crazy of a notion.

The government isn't manipulating mass media.

It's just that Americans - as media consumers - are more susceptible to stories like that.

"The government doesn't influence the media"

Remember when Obama spent 1 trillion dollars on nuclear weapons last September and none of the major media companies reported on it? Neither do I.

The government isn't manipulating mass media.

It's just that Americans - as media consumers - are more susceptible to stories like that.

From an outside perspective, surely you can see that they do manipulate the media, hell-even here it's almost certain that our government uses Channel 4 to an extent