the meat of this intro can be found in the comments, and many of us have experienced this. its as if they choose to lie when the truth would be more beneficial. i've seen 'news' casts with narry an accurate word for the whole thirty minutes and npr ones that were longer; 

Why is it so extremely difficult to convince your average person that their national news media is lying to them?

Why is it so extremely difficult to convince someone their their national news media is lying to them? They become EXTREMELY DEFENSIVE of official narratives and pronouncements that are spoon-fed to them by MSM, even to the point of verbal violence and angry shouting!.......more.......