You can't. They've lived for decades trusting the TV set as their honest, reliable source of news. They scoff at the kids and their new fangled internets. That stuff is only good for fringe nonsense like conspiracy stuff and other such malarkey. If the trusted anchor man on the 6 oclock news didn't tell them it happened, then it didn't happen.
See, the TV news, radio news and the papers actually used to be credible. Like, highly credible. The way news outlets competed with each other back in the day was by trying to be the most balanced and objective news outlet of them all. The Walter Kronkite, Peter Jennings types were trusted household figures. News agencies were so steadfast in their commitment to honesty and integrity that heads would roll at the mere whiff of bad faith reproting. Even an accusation of bias in that era would be a big deal.
That's what your parents grew up with. But now the news has very rapidly (arguably just within the last four year) become completely corrupted from top to bottom. It happened so fast that your parents blinked and probably missed it. Before, where merely getting the facts of a story wrong though negligence was a career ender for journalists, anchors and executives, now they just lie 24/7 with complete abandon and don't even give a shit. They aren't even presenting a veneer of integrity anymore. They're just unhinged propaganda outlets now. And the people who are hooked don't know any other way to get their news.
To your parents, the internet is no alternative to passive, spoon-fed style news. They actually grew up trusting the man at the desk to vet the information for them. So unless they heard it from them, it's internet malarkey. And it's really hard to convince them how ignorant this is.
You can't.
Let me put it this way, they were the first generation to get looped in by TV and it shows.
The indoctrination was different because TV was not only new technology, it was a status symbol as well.
The boomers were born in the time of post-WWII rationing and despair but by the time they were in their late-teens/early twenties the economy had been booming for years and they were able to watch revolutionary entertainment technology within their homes.
To be able to see what's going on in the world, to be able to laugh at comedies, to watch sports from their couch, to get wrapped up in soap operas.
Boomers, uniquely were never exploited by TV either. TV has always been aimed straight at Boomers. They are TV's most lucrative market and they will remain so for at least another decade.
I defy you to name any show on a major network and claim that it isn't something that boomers like more than anyone else.
It's an impossible venture.
CBC is full of shit. CNN as well but boomers treat it like the gospel because it's what they like. It's their opinions, presented by people who they perceive to be important celebrities.
You'll never break their level of conditioning.
(Unless you go the Q route, which uniquely appeals to boomers by telling them that the media they're consuming makes them special, and that only them and their friends are aware of mass pedo-vampirism but they don't have to do anything about it, just sit and watch it unfold as a passive observer. Like they do when they watch TV.) (But then you have to deal with Qtard boomers, which is less than ideal.)
The greatest cult reprogrammers in the land couldn't get boomers off CBC and CNN. TV is the devil.
The problem with Gens X and Y was that they pushed marketing too hard, and went too far at an early age which made the kids question what they were being taught.
Transformers is a great example, imagine a TV show that was created by a toy company and it was very successful. Now imagine that same toy company's marketing department deciding that they were reaching market saturation and deciding to create a massive, heavily promoted movie where they'd kill off all the toys that the kids had purchased and introduce an entirely new roster.
Another problem was that the manipulation was boomer-tier and thus unsubtle. Between all of the messaging, propaganda, weird cross-overs and "special episodes" it created jaded generations which were infinitely suspicious of television and the media in general.
Interestingly enough, that did not cross over to music which still maintained a strong amount of influence. There are still people running around to this day whose entire political philosophy is based on a song by Rage Against the Machine or an interview with a high school dropout.
The media turned that around with millennials but I'd argue that the main difference between them and generations x/y were that the latter two were actually trusted to be on their own outside of the house.
Playing with toys and consuming media isn't as fun as going out, riding bikes, hanging out with other kids and being a little shit but they're better than nothing if you're confined to the house.
I suppose their may have been a reason for all of the pedo fear that the media used to push heavily.
It's quite an interesting phenomena to consider.
For Genx, their music as kids didn't crossmarket as the music studio wouldn't do it. The margins are too small to pay on using licenced intellectual property instead of owning a creative's ass. So Transformers didn't get rocking as hard as you thought.
And GenX did get cynical for their music. It's why alternative non studio music was bought and raves were huge. It was a completely different musical system. Studios tried to coopt much of it by manufacturing grunge movement and electronica music...which saturated and took over. The Cobain got his head blown off. Rap took over after that.
That idiot listening to some Harvard students killing in the name of had no idea they were rich kids who formed a band in Harvard.
I've actually been thinking a lot about this recently and I don't think you'll like my thoughts.
Gens X, in particular seemed to have a real theme going on when it came to their music, whether it be the hair metal, new wave, shoegaze or grunge and that theme was "heroin is fucking awesome."
The mind actually boggles when one things about how many popular "counter-culture" bands had hit songs about the joys of doing heroin. Nirvana, The La's, Alice and Chains, Motley Crue, Stone Roses, and countless others.
Studios didn't try to co-opt the music and fail at it, they controlled both the alternative scenes and the shit that went on the radio with their hand-selected producers controlling everything.
If you don't believe me then look at Geffen. That's the label of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses and countless other Gen-X favourites then look at David Geffen himself, a full-blown globalist billionaire who gives tons of money to DNC causes, candidates and removing Trump.
Does that sound like a maverick label that Gen-X liked because it was authentic, or a big company cashing in on a jaded demographic?
We know how Geffen treated Sloan.
The rave scene was something different but I do have to ask, what was raving apart from being partying in the exact same way as the hippies apart from it being different hallucinogens and different music?
(And I say this as a man whose life was radically changed for the better at a party while on a candy-flip.)
The rave scene was never that big anyhow, and Toronto had one of the premier rave scenes in the world but that amazing scene really only was comprised of roughly 5-10,000 people, less than 1,000 of which who had ever attended a warehouse party.
Compare that turnout to a Korn concert. Or worse, a Backstreet Boys; there were far more far more boy band fans than there were people who had ever attended a single party in their lives.
The music industry understood what the rest of the media didn't understand, that the jaded elements of Gens X and Y were a large market and that they both sell to them and influence them provided they made it feel like a counterculture.
They did just that, and were very successful.
Tail end boomer here.
No TV for couple of decades and occasionally listening to CBC radio just to gauge msm atrocities. Yes, I agree with most comments that most BB are pig heads
Perhaps if your father is referring to the US you can direct him to The NY Times v Sullivan for an understanding of the threshold of proof required to sue the press.
He thinks any news is infallible, even tho many times I've shown him video proof of events they're lying about. Theres no getting through to him, the cognitive dissonance is way to strong.
My dad viewed the internet with disdain (despite not really knowing what it was, sure he'd tell you he knows but the man can't even use a tap debit card) until mom got a smart TV with Youtube. At first he denied that Youtube was part of the internet but eventually came around. Now he is a goddamn junkie.
It’s not a boomer thing. The youngest boomers are now 56. Plenty of people under 56, especially in the over 35 age group probably fall into the category of folks who don’t realize, or care, that they are being lied to by CNN etc. This includes Gen X and Gen Y as well. The education system and media are responsible.
This one won't convince your parents but it does show how retarded CNN reporters are at researching a simple topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivCo9UN_9jo
You can't. They've lived for decades trusting the TV set as their honest, reliable source of news. They scoff at the kids and their new fangled internets. That stuff is only good for fringe nonsense like conspiracy stuff and other such malarkey. If the trusted anchor man on the 6 oclock news didn't tell them it happened, then it didn't happen.
See, the TV news, radio news and the papers actually used to be credible. Like, highly credible. The way news outlets competed with each other back in the day was by trying to be the most balanced and objective news outlet of them all. The Walter Kronkite, Peter Jennings types were trusted household figures. News agencies were so steadfast in their commitment to honesty and integrity that heads would roll at the mere whiff of bad faith reproting. Even an accusation of bias in that era would be a big deal.
That's what your parents grew up with. But now the news has very rapidly (arguably just within the last four year) become completely corrupted from top to bottom. It happened so fast that your parents blinked and probably missed it. Before, where merely getting the facts of a story wrong though negligence was a career ender for journalists, anchors and executives, now they just lie 24/7 with complete abandon and don't even give a shit. They aren't even presenting a veneer of integrity anymore. They're just unhinged propaganda outlets now. And the people who are hooked don't know any other way to get their news.
To your parents, the internet is no alternative to passive, spoon-fed style news. They actually grew up trusting the man at the desk to vet the information for them. So unless they heard it from them, it's internet malarkey. And it's really hard to convince them how ignorant this is.
Edit:
Like look at news anchors then: Calm, emotionless, objective, almost monotonous conduits of raw but accurate information
Look at them now. Histrionic, emotional, dramatic, invested, opinionated.
The news isn't the news anymore. It's opinion and advocacy masquerading as news.
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You can't.
Let me put it this way, they were the first generation to get looped in by TV and it shows.
The indoctrination was different because TV was not only new technology, it was a status symbol as well.
The boomers were born in the time of post-WWII rationing and despair but by the time they were in their late-teens/early twenties the economy had been booming for years and they were able to watch revolutionary entertainment technology within their homes.
To be able to see what's going on in the world, to be able to laugh at comedies, to watch sports from their couch, to get wrapped up in soap operas.
Boomers, uniquely were never exploited by TV either. TV has always been aimed straight at Boomers. They are TV's most lucrative market and they will remain so for at least another decade.
I defy you to name any show on a major network and claim that it isn't something that boomers like more than anyone else.
It's an impossible venture.
CBC is full of shit. CNN as well but boomers treat it like the gospel because it's what they like. It's their opinions, presented by people who they perceive to be important celebrities.
You'll never break their level of conditioning.
(Unless you go the Q route, which uniquely appeals to boomers by telling them that the media they're consuming makes them special, and that only them and their friends are aware of mass pedo-vampirism but they don't have to do anything about it, just sit and watch it unfold as a passive observer. Like they do when they watch TV.) (But then you have to deal with Qtard boomers, which is less than ideal.)
The greatest cult reprogrammers in the land couldn't get boomers off CBC and CNN. TV is the devil.
The problem with Gens X and Y was that they pushed marketing too hard, and went too far at an early age which made the kids question what they were being taught.
Transformers is a great example, imagine a TV show that was created by a toy company and it was very successful. Now imagine that same toy company's marketing department deciding that they were reaching market saturation and deciding to create a massive, heavily promoted movie where they'd kill off all the toys that the kids had purchased and introduce an entirely new roster.
Another problem was that the manipulation was boomer-tier and thus unsubtle. Between all of the messaging, propaganda, weird cross-overs and "special episodes" it created jaded generations which were infinitely suspicious of television and the media in general.
Interestingly enough, that did not cross over to music which still maintained a strong amount of influence. There are still people running around to this day whose entire political philosophy is based on a song by Rage Against the Machine or an interview with a high school dropout.
The media turned that around with millennials but I'd argue that the main difference between them and generations x/y were that the latter two were actually trusted to be on their own outside of the house.
Playing with toys and consuming media isn't as fun as going out, riding bikes, hanging out with other kids and being a little shit but they're better than nothing if you're confined to the house.
I suppose their may have been a reason for all of the pedo fear that the media used to push heavily.
It's quite an interesting phenomena to consider.
For Genx, their music as kids didn't crossmarket as the music studio wouldn't do it. The margins are too small to pay on using licenced intellectual property instead of owning a creative's ass. So Transformers didn't get rocking as hard as you thought.
And GenX did get cynical for their music. It's why alternative non studio music was bought and raves were huge. It was a completely different musical system. Studios tried to coopt much of it by manufacturing grunge movement and electronica music...which saturated and took over. The Cobain got his head blown off. Rap took over after that.
That idiot listening to some Harvard students killing in the name of had no idea they were rich kids who formed a band in Harvard.
I've actually been thinking a lot about this recently and I don't think you'll like my thoughts.
Gens X, in particular seemed to have a real theme going on when it came to their music, whether it be the hair metal, new wave, shoegaze or grunge and that theme was "heroin is fucking awesome."
The mind actually boggles when one things about how many popular "counter-culture" bands had hit songs about the joys of doing heroin. Nirvana, The La's, Alice and Chains, Motley Crue, Stone Roses, and countless others.
Studios didn't try to co-opt the music and fail at it, they controlled both the alternative scenes and the shit that went on the radio with their hand-selected producers controlling everything.
If you don't believe me then look at Geffen. That's the label of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses and countless other Gen-X favourites then look at David Geffen himself, a full-blown globalist billionaire who gives tons of money to DNC causes, candidates and removing Trump.
Does that sound like a maverick label that Gen-X liked because it was authentic, or a big company cashing in on a jaded demographic?
We know how Geffen treated Sloan.
The rave scene was something different but I do have to ask, what was raving apart from being partying in the exact same way as the hippies apart from it being different hallucinogens and different music?
(And I say this as a man whose life was radically changed for the better at a party while on a candy-flip.)
The rave scene was never that big anyhow, and Toronto had one of the premier rave scenes in the world but that amazing scene really only was comprised of roughly 5-10,000 people, less than 1,000 of which who had ever attended a warehouse party.
Compare that turnout to a Korn concert. Or worse, a Backstreet Boys; there were far more far more boy band fans than there were people who had ever attended a single party in their lives.
The music industry understood what the rest of the media didn't understand, that the jaded elements of Gens X and Y were a large market and that they both sell to them and influence them provided they made it feel like a counterculture.
They did just that, and were very successful.
Yes to the grunge music analysis. Most of the band's people reference were unknown shills. Selling cds in the name of.
Tail end boomer here. No TV for couple of decades and occasionally listening to CBC radio just to gauge msm atrocities. Yes, I agree with most comments that most BB are pig heads
This issue is not a matter of age.
I have observed brainwashing in people age 15 to age 90.
The internet is riddled with far greater levels of available Propaganda than the half-wits at CBC and CNN could even dream up.
You are not trying to break the ice, you are trying to gradually melt it.
There is no quick fix for what is happening.
"Oh the news cant lie they would get sued" I've given up, if my father talks to me about CNN CBC or any current events I leave the room.
"they would get sued" even defaming POTUS and his wife doesn't get them sued. Just saying :D
Perhaps if your father is referring to the US you can direct him to The NY Times v Sullivan for an understanding of the threshold of proof required to sue the press.
He thinks any news is infallible, even tho many times I've shown him video proof of events they're lying about. Theres no getting through to him, the cognitive dissonance is way to strong.
My dad viewed the internet with disdain (despite not really knowing what it was, sure he'd tell you he knows but the man can't even use a tap debit card) until mom got a smart TV with Youtube. At first he denied that Youtube was part of the internet but eventually came around. Now he is a goddamn junkie.
Bring back the house hippo commercial!
Sorry I didn't have too, they have always been based.
Last night my mom said "people are afraid to even get sick now, what a bunch of cry babies"
It’s not a boomer thing. The youngest boomers are now 56. Plenty of people under 56, especially in the over 35 age group probably fall into the category of folks who don’t realize, or care, that they are being lied to by CNN etc. This includes Gen X and Gen Y as well. The education system and media are responsible.
I agree, It's not the generational issue but it is the level of success of establishment's brainwashing imposed onto former humans, now zombies
The struggle is real to change the minds of the mainstream media sheep
Just tell them in China, no one believes the networks because they are heavily regulated and get kick backs.
Then show them that Mansbridge received payola money from the oil industry. Their mind will be blown.
Then ask them if they can't trust him, what makes any of it trustworthy?