People are losing trust in mainstream media because of perceived biased coverage of the Gaza genocide. If that erosion of trust is real, why isn’t it prompting wider public re-examination of historical cover-ups and contested narratives — Watergate, Iran–Contra, Iraq, even shifting beliefs about who “beat” the Nazis? If we don’t question how past information was shaped, what’s the point of preserving evidence (e.g., Gaza genocide evidence recently removed from YouTube by Google)? Won’t this all be forgotten in a few years, the same way all those previous events are no longer discussed?
What’s stopping a sustained, constructive public inquiry into these parallels between past cover-ups and current information control? Where are good, constructive places to discuss these issues without falling into unproductive conspiracy spirals?
Plenty of serious investigative journalism still going on around these subjects, but it won’t be openly discussed and acknowledged by every political faction and strata of society in America until after the empire falls, is replaced in its primacy by some other global power, and the ruling factions are removed from power. Look at how the British now fairly openly admit the atrocities committed by their ruling factions when they were the global superpower. It doesn’t just become acknowledged out of the goodness of the people’s hearts, it becomes undeniable.