Who decides who is appointed to an all star panel to tell us about the news each day? Some of the so called all stars,
read talking points for a certain party. There is obvious bias. The media is always trying to influence viewers about the news. A large percentage of the time, the news reporting is not objective.
And what’s even scarier: the fake news of today becomes the fake history of tomorrow.
Every single damning thing that VDH says about the modern media’s corrupt accounting of current events can equally be said of the modern academia’s accounting of historical events.
After all, where does media stop and academia begin? Are not the dispensers of “history” subject to the same corrupt forces as are the dispensers of “news”?
“History” is never cast in stone. There is never just one true version - even if there was, who is to say that version will always be selected by today’s professors at today’s schools and universities as the version to teach?
Of all the writings, past and present - the PHD dissertations, the academic research, the historical essays, the best-selling books and articles, the Wikipedia piece, the required readings and textbooks pushed by history teachers and professors - who decides what will be taught as history?
The same rash of agenda driven Leftist progressives that hog the microphone in today’s ”newsrooms” also control the lecterns and podiums of today’s classrooms and lecture halls.
Historical revisionism (fake history) is every bit as rampant as agenda driven reporting of current events (fake news).
FReepers should be every bit as suspicious of academia as we are of the MSM - I no longer have any kids in school - but some of the ideas my grandkids come home with.... I’ve tried to encourage my children to home school their kids but they don’t have the time - I’m trying to talk them out of sending my grandchildren to liberal arts college - unless they are keenly focused on chemistry, physics or medicine or something tangible - skip college altogether.