I know what you mean... I have seen something like that with my own family. I have a family member that is a news junkie.... main stream media news no less. She use to tell me stuff that they said and I was trying to wake her up.... I would ask probing questions that I know they would not give answers to. Its sad that so many people can be that programmed. My Partner and I both do not watch "regular" TV. We still watch TV programs from time to time but we do not watch them the normal way. We download them so we do not have to watch the commercials and when we do watch them, we both see the symbolism in them and the programming. Friends will not watch Movies with us anymore because we pause movies a lot to point out a symbol here or to explain propaganda as we find it. We both have really enjoyed steemit. So far we have actually had intelligent conversations with awake people, like yourself and it is wonderful. It feels good to know we really are not alone in finding the truth. We both really love digging into a story and bring truth to people.