Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: Docuganda!

propoganda needs to be acknowledged as such. Over the last fifteen years, Fox News has transformed "news" into editorials-- not just for its own station, but also for every other news station. First of all, the recognition that objective reporting is not possible has resulted in opinion pieces replacing that objective reporting. Secondly, stations have learned that preaching to the choir (as this website tends to do) secures a base audience that strengthens that business or organization in an otherwise too competitive market. Whether it's from Rush Limbaugh or Noam Chomsky, Fox News or CNN, politically biased perspective replaces raw (albeit organized) data that acknowledges as many sides as possible (not just Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Greenie, or Radical, but rather uncategorizable data). Unfortunately, as many people who take Fox News at face value also take Moore at face value. No source of information openly admits that it is biased or explains how it is biased.

We're not thinking for ourselves. We're buying (literally purchasing) polarized identities. These identities disable us from thinking outside these thematic paradigms. The paradigms decide who we vote for, and even whether or not we vote. The paradigms oppose us to people we could otherwise understand. We defend the limits of this thinking: If you cross this line, you are no longer one of us. We inherently repress any acknowledgement of whatever in ourselves does not abide by our polarized definitions for ourselves. We become neurotic about certain "political" subjects. We are trapped in these identities.

This is the true nature of democratized media: freedom of choice means you chose freely and so can be defined by that choice, until you are bound by that choice and no longer free.

--Gray Kane