American's Continually Lose Faith in Media

A prominent political activist says a majority of Americans are rapidly losing their trust in the Western main stream media due to its unbalanced reporting of ongoing events around the world, Press TV reports.

“The narrative diverges so much from the reality at this point that people just wake up and go out into the world everyday and see that what’s happening, what’s being told to them, as opposed to what’s actually happening on the ground, are not the same thing,” radio host Don DeBar said in an interview with Press TVon Monday. 

DeBar also criticized the media for misrepresenting facts, noting that “some of the things like the official unemployment rate and the constant cheerleading for the economy, that it’s getting better when people are falling further and further into an economic abyss, that’s at the basis of their loss of confidence.” 

The analyst said media networks filter information sent out over the airwaves “to build public support or negate public opposition to policies that are made in Washington.” 

“The very narrow band of information that gets out to the American people” can be attributed to “news outlets which are very tightly held -- there’s a very small circle of owners that own all of the means of communication here,” DeBar said. 

This comes as former CNN reporter Amber Lyon has stated that the US-based network and other American mainstream media are engaged in the “constant demonization” of countries in the Middle East -- particularly Iran.

Lyon also revealed that CNN gets paid by despotic regimes to produce and broadcast what she referred to as “infomercials for dictators,” saying that the sponsored content of such pieces aired on CNN International is paid for by regimes and governments. 

Lyon, an award-winning reporter, also said that CNN was bribed by Bahrain’s regime to censor her documentary which exposed the country’s brutal crackdown on popular protests. 

Western media groups keep Americans in the dark regarding world affairs, but “if it wasn’t for Press TV, I wouldn’t know that there was even a place called Bahrain let alone that the Saudis occupied it and they’ve been killing Bahrainis since they’ve started occupying it when the Bahraini government was about to fall to a peaceful, indigenous uprising,” DeBar concluded. 

GMA/JR