During the Cold War, a constant stream of information was available to the public. People were to know what was happening.
When the Cold War ended, it took a little time, but then it was realised that a population of uninformed sheep was easier to control.
The best example is the BBC World Service, once the pinnacle of information. After the Cold War ended it became as informative as a local music station.
Besides the waste of time called ‘Outlook’ which is like walking along your road and interviewing your neighbours, is the Narcissist’s paradise, “Hard Talk”.
On this platform a narcissistic presenter subjects a major person to the kind of interrogation usually preceded by water boarding.
The Narcissist constantly interrupts and distracts so that very little information is revealed.
These two unnecessary interview programs are aired over and over during the day to insure that the minds of listeners are as distracted were they to play one of those shoot em up computer games.
The drips of news are so truncated that many times one has no idea where or who or when.
Instead of insuring that the listener of the news knows what is being discussed, if one doesn’t know where a city is, who the leader is, what the problem is, the BBC WS makes sure not to tell them.
Having a population of ignorant people who can be fed propaganda was adopted by the West.
I assume by ignorant you mean uneducated ~ is that the case?
Education has nothing to do with ignorance. People have had Ph.Ds and missed common sense things. If you turn on the radio and instead of hearing about events are having your ears fill of some meaningless discussion with no one in particular, how would you know about the big scandal of Kanye West in Jamaica?
I totally disagree. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. Stupidity is when you have the knowledge and do it anyway.
I didn’t say stupid, I said ignorant. What I am writing about is withholding news to keep the population ignorant.
In the 1960s and 70s I listened to shortwave radio a lot and the BBC was easy to pick up. I enjoyed listening to it. I got my radio out a few years ago. What a shame.
WE listened on Shortwave as well. It was quite informative. Today? If you need to get the facts, you have to go elsewhere.
Sad. It was fun trying to see what countries you could hear.