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That's been a go-to backgrounder for Tom Clancy and other military/spy thriller writers for decades.
by dleslie 6y ago
That's been a go-to backgrounder for Tom Clancy and other military/spy thriller writers for decades.
- keiferski 6y agoI meant more with regards to the Internet and the "post-truth" era we are supposedly in, at least in a media context. From my perspective every media source has become intensely partisan / there is no single mainstream media narrative anymore, which is a new phenomenon. +1 for Tom Clancy though. I grew up reading all the Rainbow Six books.
- dleslie 6y agoIt's not a new phenomenon; the idea that there's a post-truth era to news media is as old as news media itself. This is where the term "Yellow Journalism" derives from; but even that aged term came to being well after distrust in news media was common.
- keiferski 6y agoI don't agree. Yellow journalism was a similar phenomenon, but the pre-social media landscape was far different from the one today. Pre-social media, you still needed significant resources to push your narrative. Today, you mostly just need to go viral. Not too many resources required. Very different situation.
- dleslie 6y agoPublic access and small local radio were cheap or free to access, and common sources of fringe ideas. It wasn't until the spectrum ownership was consolidated that this access disipated; but by then, dial up BBSs were common and growing popular. Also, handing out and distributing hand-pressed folios was common; and a source of much of the zeitgeist for several political revolutions.