"I miss the time when we could trust the news to just give us the simple truth!" Dude, that's a time that never existed. The news has always been at least as m

"I miss the time when we could trust the news to just give us the simple truth!" Dude, that's a time that never existed. The news has always been at least as much propaganda as it is simple information sharing. Perhaps the only reason we think it's especially bad now is that we're all aware of competing propaganda organizations pushing conflicting narratives. In the past, you might only have one local newspaper, so it was easier to believe that the local propaganda organization that controls your mind is telling the simple truth. But the modern world forces all of us to face the reality that the news has never been something we can naively trust.