The John Robinson series is generating much content, controversy and trolling / co-intelpro which is good when we are trying to seek the truth.

Dingo sent me this.

I will take only a few examples from the large number of existing cases:
In journalistic circles, they like to speak of the press as a ‘great power’
within the state. As a matter of fact, its importance is immense. One cannot
easily overestimate it, for the press continues the work of adult education.
Generally, readers can be divided into three groups:
First, those who believe everything they read;
Second, those who no longer believe anything;
Third, those who critically examine what they read and form their
judgments accordingly.

The quote goes on, but the above gives the gist.  It’s worth continuing to the full explanation so here’s the rest:

Numerically, the first group is by far the largest. It consists of the broad
masses of the people, and therefore, intellectually, it forms the simplest part
of the nation.
It cannot be classified according to occupation but only by grades of
intelligence. Under this category fall all those who haven’t been born to
think for themselves or who haven’t learned to do so, and who-partly
through incompetence and partly through ignorance-believe everything
they read. This group includes that type of lazy individual who, although
capable of thinking for himself, absorbs what others have thought,
assuming that they must have put some effort into it.
The influence of the press on all these people is therefore enormous;
they are, after all, the broad masses of a nation. They aren’t willing or able
to personally sift through what is being served up to them, and so their
whole attitude towards daily problems is almost solely the result of outside
influence. All this can be advantageous where public enlightenment is
provided by serious lovers of the truth, but is catastrophic when done at
the hand of scoundrels and liars.
The second group is numerically smaller, being partly composed of those
who were formerly in the first group, but after a series of bitter
disappointments are now prepared to believe nothing of what they read. They
hate all newspapers. Either they don’t read them at all or they become very
annoyed at their contents, which they hold to be nothing but lies and
falsehoods. These people are difficult to handle; they will always be skeptical
of the truth. Consequently, they are useless for any form of positive work.
The third group is easily the smallest. It’s composed of real
intellectuals, who have the natural aptitude and education to think for
themselves. In all things, they try to form their own judgments, while at
the same time carefully sifting through what they read. They won’t read
any newspaper without using their own intelligence to challenge the writer,
and naturally this makes things difficult. Journalists ‘appreciate’ this type
of reader only with a large degree of caution.
For members of this third group, the nonsense served up by the
newspapers isn’t very dangerous or even very important. In the majority of
cases, these readers have learned to regard every journalist as fundamentally
a rogue who only rarely speaks the truth. Unfortunately, the value of these
readers lies in their intelligence and not in their numbers-a misfortune, in
a period where wisdom counts for nothing and majorities for everything!
Nowadays, when the ballots of the masses are the deciding factor, the
decision lies in the hands of the numerically strongest group-which is to
say, the first group: the crowd of simpletons and the credulous.

        — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Thomas Dalton Translation)