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Fix news? it was enough to keep writing stories about how the president met with someone and they each said conventional things written in advance by their staf
by lr4444lr 9y ago
Fix news? it was enough to keep writing stories about how the president met with someone and they each said conventional things written in advance by their staffs
Yeah, we now recognize that as propaganda. Maybe the web is finally helping people wake up to the fact that news was never really working.
- methehack 9y agoIt works a lot better than the comments section. You include this comment and yours in that.
- shaki-dora 9y agoThis comment lacks both an appreciating for the nuance of international diplomacy, as well as journalism.
- lr4444lr 9y agoThen my hometown newspapers, whose "investigations" of local concerns consist of these same perfunctory recapitulations of representatives from the area politicians, and whose revenue by large comes from the full page ads paid for by those same politicians campaign bank accounts and even the taxpayer under the guise of questionable "public service" expenditures, must be brimming with the subtleties of diplomacy and journalistic excellence, I'm sure.