> The opposite also has issues: If you accept the media as default "false", then what to believe? What is actually true outside of your own lived experience? E

> The opposite also has issues: If you accept the media as default "false", then what to believe? What is actually true outside of your own lived experience? Everybody else's experiences? You point about the Iraq war (if that is what you were referring to), sums up how I perceived what happened at the time. However with a few hours digging it wasn't too hard to turn up primary sources - UN inspector reports and other information on what was happening inside Iraq's political elite. Suffices to say it didn't match the consensus the media had built amongst themselves. The same was true for Russiagate. Lots of smoke but after waiting for a while and the media fanned it furiously, but no fire appeared. It's true there were no retractions have forthcoming - but are there ever? Which brings us to the demise of 4th estate. You are worried about the demise of institution that manufactured a false justification for a war, or Russiagate on one side and the emails on the other? I didn't give up on them because they put themselves behind paywalls. I gave up on them because there are better sources of news.