News is the machine that manufactures opinion. If you don't read the news you will still be subject to mainline opinion and its policy consequences. It's probab

News is the machine that manufactures opinion. If you don't read the news you will still be subject to mainline opinion and its policy consequences. It's probably more accurate, if no less unhappy, to read the news as primarily propaganda (for specific political interests or for ideological consensus building). You can, of course, "daff the world aside, And bid it pass" but the news is history in the sense that whoever wins the news cycle, wins the commanding heights of the historical record. Think of reading the news as like the spectators taking a picnic to watch 19th century battles, but today, it's a war for peoples' minds.