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But has this changed? (I assert a resounding no) I mean, Fox News is the most watched of the cable news networks, do they lie and hide information the least?

Like what timeline are we talking about here, when is the golden age of media not lying, it’s certainly not the 60’s and the Vietnam war.(hahaha ironically this is exactly when trust in the media and institutions was the highest, early 70’s)

https://www.statista.com/chart/5883/trust-in-mass-media/

Is there a series of things that they’ve lied about that you can point to that doesn’t have a partisan skew?

The only thing top of mind is maybe not going deep enough on the reasons for entering the Iraq war.



Lippmann stated bluntly in 1926, narratives are bunk, the news can't resolve any idea of analytic complexity, yet we kept them around like dinosaurs.

Face it, journalism is finished, it's extinct.


More than outdated, today its deception at the core




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