Chomsky's filters are relevant, but they are almost a baseline and since the 2000's there are much worse kinds of filters. Fox, and especially in the 2010's an

Chomsky's filters are relevant, but they are almost a baseline and since the 2000's there are much worse kinds of filters. Fox, and especially in the 2010's and especially since Trump, MSNBC, CNN, the Atlantic - all of them have become a bit unhinged. The bold postmodern claims being thrown around as 'news' is jaw dropping, and they're all guilty. I can't watch the news about a single event without assuming I will be misinformed, usually in some sneaky way. If all we had to deal with were Chomsky's filters we'd be mostly fine. I am confident we'll be able to reel in Alex Jones, I'm not sure about just the regular, harmful, cynical stuff. And FYI - net-net - because the press has such a bigger audience than Alex Jones, and they lie a lot, they are kind of as guilty. I hope they settle down in the coming years as Trump fades a bit into history.