You can't look at this through a modern lens

Watching the mainstream news WAS research

There was no internet video

It pisses me off, because a lot of the people who still to this day spout the nonsense on the WMDs , even though it was MSM driven, tend to be the same ones admonishing the MSM for Russiagate

There were files...The UN records were public

Basically they fell for one con, while finger wagging another

Lots of stuff is public record.

An overwhelming majority of people aren't autistic enough to go to their library and dig up archives of current events in order to fact check the nightly news

What an asshole perspective Jesus christ

After 13 years?

the average person dont look up where he will get the most cheep insurance. you think he look up WMD in iraq. they just dont care

You realize people STILL claim the same bs

No, I'm talking about while it was happening.

Youtube has been around since before 2007

Videos online have been around for some time

This is about on par with blaming a rape victim at this point

And to hold the same view from start to finish of the war and after by this point is ignorance

Yes, I agree with that

Oh, I should have maybe commented - the point of the poster about Iraq is that if Boris Johnson trial goes ahead, it opens up pandora's box for anything and everything politicians have claimed...
...not necessarily a bad thing in my book, but it would suddenly make governements a lot less stable.

Youtube started 2 years after the war did. I'm sorry, but even if you held the same views by 2007 or even 2010. You did so via ignorance. And I have no patience for it.

This whole time I've been talking about the popularity of the Iraq war while it was happening that was perpetuated by maintaining a half truth about WMDs

Hell most people still had dial up until 2007ish lol

And youtube was for cat videos

I am talking while it is happening. But within 2 years, video streaming was common online. And again public record has been there the whole time. The war was 2003 to 2011 (officially) If you didn't see the MSM's falsehood in that period...You were willfully ignorant

Especially once the narrative changed to "LOOK THE GOV DID IT FOR NUKES AND FOUND NONE"

You have rose tinted glasses and a privileged perspective that others never had

Hell this was continued in movies up through the mid 2010s

Naw...Just not willingly ignorant

I'd hardly call it willingly.

I mean come on, it took until 2016-17 for people to start calling MSM 'fake news'.

This has NOT been a common attitude among the population

Again the war officially went through to 2011...So....Still holding that view up to that point.

Yea to openly term it as "Fake News"

But everyone knew even back then that News companies had a slant, or bias. And tended to omit things often. Hence why there was a market for Fox even back then

No not 'everyone'

I'd say 10% at most until 2015

Well except for the willingly ignorant

Fox News Started in 1996

People have known since then

I'm willing to bet that 90% of the population until 2015 took their MSNBC nightly news at face value and considered it factual

Sure, people watched other channels for other 'perspectives'

But that was usually for politics

Perspective = Slant/Bias

And the moment the News channels started opinion shows, people who werent ignorant knew

I know some elderly people that even to day believe anything the msm says as why will a journalist lie

@Nordhand Exactly