It’s scary living in this world when you know that close to 100% of the “news” is just a bunch of lies crafted to manipulate the sheeple to do the bidding of the hidden powerful people.
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That’s not the scarey part.
The scarey part is that there is no one else in the main stream news who is willing to refute, repudiate, and destroy fake news, and that half the country don’t care if it’s false as long is it attacks the other side.
40 years ago, if the WaPo or NYT or 60 minutes did a false expose or investigative report, or even just an article, everyone else would have destroyed them, and reveled in it, and the outrage from the public would have been shared no matter which side it appeared to benefit.
This above all else concerns me.
All the sky-is-falling stuff about politics typically sounds like alarmism to me. Politics has always been brutal.
But the Press used to keep them in check when they went wrong.
Well said. It’s the monolithic nature of the “news” today which is the problem. Largely driven by AP, but the bottomline is that they all say the same thing: Trump is Hitler.
I believe you are mistaken. 40 years ago, there was no alternate media to destroy or expose them. At least not any media of consequence.
Consider the media coup that was Watergate.
We have been living in a mediacracy for at least 50 years.
The WaPo, NYTs, and 60 minutes did numerous false exposes and articles in that time period.
As they gave each other awards and loving hugs for their intrepid reporting their politically partisan style of lying and deceiving the nation became mainstream and they were admired by up and comers like Peter Jennings, Wolf Blitzer, Geraldo Rivera, Brian Williams, Juan Williams, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Jim Acosta and the new generation of scurrilous bastards who make a living on deceit.