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>>lawles+(OP)
Too bad the only people that will watch this are people who already understand the terror of what is happening. It might have helped a little if it had aired. My MAGA dad still watches 60 Minutes (no idea why, habit?) This might have penetrated his TDS-addled skull if it had aired. But the takeover of CBS by Trump and Ellison (and his 1980's-college-villain son) with Weiss is complete, and vile.

>>why-o-+yr
In any media, people only see what they want. There's a psychological term for this, Motivated Reasoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

If you want to break this you have to know the person and ask key questions afterwards. Their distortion field is held together by beliefs and principles, not empirical analysis.

For instance, for my father, the question "how is this treating people responsibly? How can we expect the behavior of those guards to be held accountable?" would pierce this ... but really you have to know how the person doing motivated reasoning thinks.

>>kristo+5s
So does this apply to every single person all the time?

>>why-o-+ms
Nothing does.

It's about successful communication of authorial intent.

60 Minutes is not trying to say "Justice Served!" and shake pom-poms here. But, someone could read it that way, and it would be unintended.