"Mass Intelligence is small"

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by  This quotation by Adolf Hitler, himself head of one of history’s most effective propaganda machines, could easily summarize how lies are so effectively spread by the media in our own country. At some point, the idea that outrageous, easily disprovable lies could not be published in the media slipped away. Take Fox News as an example. This is a non-news organization that was created simply to cater to the emotional needs of a segment of the population. The requirement of journalistic integrity is a joke to these people and their audience couldn’t be happier'