Yeah zombie / sheep grooming - it's a personal term I like to use, being blunt and to the point of what some media areas (including social media) are doing / at

Yeah zombie / sheep grooming - it's a personal term I like to use, being blunt and to the point of what some media areas (including social media) are doing / attempting to do ... and not by accident. Yes there's brain washing, and then there's the same at a subtle level. More often what I see here, the grooming is sophisticated but most importantly constant in regard to the news feed. The sophisticated efforts flies under the radar for most ordinary folk, any irregularity dismissed by rational thinkers as just poorly researched or just biased for whatever reason. Sometimes efforts do not rely on craftiness, and the news source relies on just loudly trumpeting the cheery picked facts that sit well with the agenda - or simply omit facts or entire news items that stomps on or contradicts their most recent campaign. The folks who have already latched onto a baseless idea which is being contradicted by science or merely a simple thought exercise seem to be most prone to grooming. The end point seem to be shutting down any questioning of the agenda they, by way of the media in their pocket, are pushing. In Australia this story got quite unimportant once the same grooming areas, found their privates caught up in new reporting on the biggest bomb plot ever that to a critical thinker about ten seconds in seemed just a bit too contrived ... alas it gave them a very good platform and they'd been loudly drumming it up as real big bad and super important ... oops total hoax. I probably miss some of it, but for a some of the subtle grooming efforts, I have a couple of family members more often on different ends of the political spectrum that are best described as barometers. BTW they're not that whacked -- for instance both happy to acknowledge climate change is happening. [Mind notable climate change in my locale is due more to the very big heat bubble that has recently (last 2 or 3 decades) formed from the mid to eastern edges of the large expanse of open pit coal mines inland - the 100 years plus history of summer inland storms that used to just travel west to east, is now at odds with current local storm movement with most instead diverting north and south to the coast.]