Hey Mark, yes, we easily get caught up in a loss of detail and depth as we think and speak. Usually there's a root cause which involves our own use of convenient mental shortcuts but these themselves can usually be found to be motivated by our own avoidance of certain feelings we don't like. Our mind might think 'I can just say that x problem is caused by Covid, without having to go into all the details and it will be easier/quicker', but in truth we are also subtly doing this to avoid going in to feelings that feel difficult or challenging. At the same time there are the advanced manipulators in society mapping all of this out and continuously exploiting our own failures of cognition.

I fully recognise what you are pointing to in people's denial mechanisms. I like to keep an eye on people's pupils (in their own eyes) as I am having these kinds of conversations, as you can literally watch them change shape as the denial kicks in.

Yes, it does seem that GBNews is part funded by Murdoch's group that funds Fox News. Both of these channels have a strategy of trying to seem rebellious and 'truthy' without ever actually delivering on that!

I think the only solution to all of this that genuinely can help humanity is decentralisation of information and communication. We will have to go through the current phase of working out how to do that for a while. We don't really need 'citizen journalists' to mimic the old ways in order to gain respect - we need people to evolve new ways that fit in with the coming paradigm of personal empowerment.