Lots of HRC emails
The Liberal Media ‘Matrix’
Column: Covington, Smollett, Mueller, Avenatti and other adventures in unreality
Matthew Continetti
April 12, 2019 5:00 am
https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-liberal-media-matrix/
I used to laugh every time I heard someone like Elon Musk say that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation. These days, not so much.
Don’t call the funny farm just yet. On the major question of the nature of sense experience, I remain with Aristotle and against Bishop Berkeley. Matter is real. But there is also the question of how we perceive “the news”; how established media institutions present and frame information; how we are supposed to respond to the “takes” purportedly expert and knowledgeable voices serve up to us by the second on social media. And here, I’m skeptical.