Let's see: The current NYT front page, top to bottom until I stop caring: 6 x GHW Bush 2 x "Wisconsin Republicans Approve Stripping Power From Incoming Democr

Let's see: The current NYT front page, top to bottom until I stop caring: 6 x GHW Bush 2 x "Wisconsin Republicans Approve Stripping Power From Incoming Democratic Governor" "Facebook..." 3 x CBS' Moonves showed dick to actress, tried to get her roles to keep it quiet, lied to investigators 3 x New data on World-Wide Greenhouse gas emission Trump/China OPEC Meeting Markets down "The Best Movies Of 2018" None of these come anywhere close to what Graham describes, i. e. "Dude Ranches are the New Trend in Gender Reveal Outings" or whatever. Except maybe the list of movies, where it's generally understood that reviewers enjoy the luxurious bribes that are free tickets (and still dare to publicly rubbish films, with no discernible trends that neatly align to some production companies figuring out how to reliably buy good reviews) You can make this conspiracy theory work by insisting there some groups that profit from each of these stories, in some convoluted scheme. And most of these groups probably engage in PR, because everyone does. But then you have just arrived at a useless truism. So what's the purpose on insisting that everything is manipulated, and that there's some dark powers scheming to manipulate us, apart from the smug feeling of superiority? There's a point where critical thinking just becomes nihilism.