Propaganda and the Financial News

This week's episode of Breaking the Dollar challenges the notion that the mainstream media for financial news serves as an objective source of information. All of the well-known drawbacks of the broader mass news media apply to the world of finance: persuasion, propaganda, political agendas, corporate ownership, and so on. Everett uses critical thinking to demonstrate the bias—often against gold—found in these sources of financial "infotainment."