A posting over at Sadly, No summarizes a certain paradoxal reasoning of the political right in the US, where bloggers literally prefer to believe the news coming from the Defense department above the ones coming from the ‘disgusting’ mainstream media. BradR (one of Sadly, No’s posters) illustrates it with the following example:
For instance, if you read MSM (ed: mainstream media) reports on Tibet, you’re probably under the impression that China has been brutally oppressing the Tibetan people for the last fifty-plus years. However, if you’d read reports about the situation in the Chinese People’s Daily, you’d know that “on May 23, 1951, the Central Government signed with Tibet’s local government a “17-Article Agreement” for the peaceful liberation of Tibet, which helped the region cast off imperialist fetters and laid a foundation for regional ethnic autonomy in Tibet.”
I couldn’t have said it better.