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Yes. Media has been dead since the Kuwaiti girl testimony in 1990. It's done, it's over, today's scandals are just aftershocks of that turning point.

• schoen 9y ago
  For people who aren't familiar with this incident, you can read about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
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• anigbrowl 9y ago
  This hyperbole isn't helpful, with the implication that this never happened before in history. I'm guessing that's just the specific incident that led to you being more cynical. Deception and manipulation of public sentiment by either wholly fabricated or suddenly-scandalous news (ie digging up some old incident and setting up a great hue and cry like it just happened) is an old, old propaganda technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear I'm sure there are similar examples from the Roman Republic when it was operating as an actual Republic rather than an appendage of empire.
  • rado 9y ago
    Yes, precisely. Thanks.