That has always been the case. George Washington and the cherry tree comes to mind. And so it began. Sometime near the end of the cold war I realized that the

That has always been the case. George Washington and the cherry tree comes to mind. And so it began. Sometime near the end of the cold war I realized that the West's propaganda machine was in fact better than the Soviet version. Nobody in the USSR believed "Pravda" but everybody believed the NBC Nightly News. :) One might argue however that we need such a mechanism since in 2020, as the Scots might say: "People can ni' agree on the color o' Shite"