The normies I know usually don't "start to question" because they're simply not interested in the topic. Hence, they just read here and there from the MSM, see the headlines on their phone notifications/widgets, and think that they're reasonably informed on what's going on, in the main lines.
The SINGLE MAIN TRAIT that is keeping them from "starting to question" is that they can't conceive that big media outlets could be malevolent. For them, people who present the news (and write articles for CNN) are people like them, just with a different job. They consider them to be their peers and, while they understand that they "have their own biases", they think they are "genuinely seeking the truth" and "doing their best to do good, to the extent of their own biases".
They also consider that the world is a complex system that nobody really understands or is able to control, and that it's all pretty much random.
With this people, the VERY MINUTE you start asking things like "questioning" or "doubting" the mainstream media narrative, or insinuating that there could be some form of coordination between the different media outlets, you fall into conspiracy theory land.
So no, very little "starting to question" that I can observe.
For completeness, the surroundings I'm referring to are relatively highly-educated people like msc or phd, usually software engineers or scientists, or sales people, or strategy, etc. And actively working, with a career. Not university stuff.
The normies I know usually don't "start to question" because they're simply not interested in the topic. Hence, they just read here and there from the MSM, see the headlines on their phone notifications/widgets, and think that they're reasonably informed on what's going on, in the main lines.
The SINGLE MAIN TRAIT that is keeping them from "starting to question" is that they can't conceive that big media outlets could be malevolent. For them, people who present the news (and write articles for CNN) are people like them, just with a different job. They consider them to be their peers and, while they understand that they "have their own biases", they think they are "genuinely seeking the truth" and "doing their best to do good, to the extent of their own biases".
They also consider that the world is a complex system that nobody really understands or is able to control, and that it's all pretty much random.
With this people, the VERY MINUTE you start asking things like "questioning" or "doubting" the mainstream media narrative, or insinuating that there could be some form of coordination between the different media outlets, you fall into conspiracy theory land.
So no, very little "starting to question" that I can observe.
For completeness, the surroundings I'm referring to are relatively highly-educated people like msc or phd, usually software engineers or scientists, or sales people, or strategy, etc. And actively working, with a career. Not university stuff.