Since Albert Bandura conducted the Bobo doll experiments in the early '60s there's been an unshakeable (and erroneous) belief that commerical media *creates* behaviours & opinions, rather than simply supplying market demand.https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/1113676773361889280 …
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...and this will then influence you, and you behave *as if* you believed. Hence the only person who calls out the Emperor's New Clothes is the naive child who does not understand the importance of the Big Lie, that is, Public Opinion.
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Thus, it is possible for an opinion to be massively unpopular and yet for it to be regarded as the consensus public opinion. The arbitrators of this are the mainstream media.
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