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While the main stream media is eager to portray fakenews as the gravest threat to free society, this type of clickbait headline writing essentially exposes thei
by billfruit 8y ago
While the main stream media is eager to portray fakenews as the gravest threat to free society, this type of clickbait headline writing essentially exposes their duplicity. So while the press like to pontificate from their ivory towers on their unalloyed noble purpose, they are ultimately human institutions, with all its ensuing fallibility, all its flaws.
- kopo 8y agoIt's more complicated than that. Matt Taibbi - "As it turns out, there is a utility in keeping us divided. As people, the more separate we are, the more politically impotent we become. This is the second stage of the mass media deception originally described in Manufacturing Consent. First, we’re taught to stay within certain bounds, intellectually. Then, we’re all herded into separate demographic pens, located along different patches of real estate on the spectrum of permissible thought. Once safely captured, we’re trained to consume the news the way sports fans do. We root for our team, and hate all the rest. Hatred is the partner of ignorance, and we in the media have become experts in selling both." https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway