This cherry picks what's traditional. In the late 1800s, the term "yellow journalism" was coined to describe completely fake news published by Hearst and Pulit

This cherry picks what's traditional. In the late 1800s, the term "yellow journalism" was coined to describe completely fake news published by Hearst and Pulitzer. (There were good yellow journalists on both sides.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism People seem to think that we had general consensus in the 1950s. Watching TV was easier than reading and had better pictures than radio. Yes, the television news tri-opoly of the time managed to feed Americans more or less the same pap. People were told the same "news" and told to buy the same products. Unless those people lived in the south, of course. https://southernspaces.org/2004/television-news-and-civil-rights-struggle-views-virginia-and-mississippi/ https://southernspaces.org/2004/television-news-and-civil-ri... I reject this forced consensus. I don't want the public to be fed propaganda for another cold war and like it (thanks, TV's big 3!). I'd rather have a thinking public that gets lots of things wrong and rarely agrees than a captive, mesmerized public that thinks "all the right things" because someone told them to.