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This is absolutely the best advice I've come across in a long time. In this day and age where news are used predominantly to manipulate our political views by t
by deehouie 7y ago
This is absolutely the best advice I've come across in a long time. In this day and age where news are used predominantly to manipulate our political views by the major media, this piece is particularly relevant.
- thundergolfer 7y ago> this day and age... The manufacturing of consent has been going on since the corporate monopolisation of newspapers in the early 20th century, but arguably news media has always had an agenda. Before they were killed off I’m sure the labour class media organisations had an agenda that was pro-labour class. You can never really escape agenda driven media you just have to be a knowledgeable, critical media consumer so you can derive information even from those with antagonistic agendas. For example, Chomsky still thinks it’s important to read The New York Times and check out CNN.
- throwawaysea 7y agoEven earlier than that. Check out this article about fake news in the days of George Washington: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/10/the-fake-news-that-haunted-george-washington/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/10...