How many people believed the initial media reports in the months that followed Kennedy's assassination in 1963 about Oswald being the lone gunman - as compared to today?
I've seen polls conducted that indicate as high as 70% of Americans believe there was a much broader conspiracy and Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the only assassin.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...861003,00.html
Imagine if people didn't question the government and mainstream media - but instead swallowed the 'official' story.
While it's easy and tempting to label and dismiss people who question the 'official' story as "nut jobs", they aren't a new breed invented in an Internet era.
How many among us put creedence in the phrase, "Where there's smoke...there's fire"?...yet...rush to dismiss those who question the status quo.
I agree that it's ridiculous to present a theory as fact - but to label people who raise questions as "morons, idiots and wackjobs" without addressing the validity of their questions...is also not a good thing.