What the hell happened to America? The media are no longer trustable. The reports of for example CNN that confirm their anti-Trump bias. Turns out all media is biased. No one should trust the media because they confirm themselves that they lie. Liars must not be trusted. They shouldn’t even be watched, read or listened to. Go.. Go on now, go, walk out the door… Just turn around now ‘Cause you’re not welcome anymore. You helped ruin America. Go…
“The news media and the government have created a charade that serves their own interests but misleads the public. Officials oblige the media’s need for drama by fabricating crises and stage-managing their responses, thereby enhancing their own prestige and power. Journalists dutifully report those fabrications. Both parties know the articles are self-aggrandizing manipulations and fail to inform the public about the more complex but boring issues of government policy and activity.
“What has emerged, Weaver argues, is a culture of lying. “The culture of lying,” he writes, “is the discourse and behavior of officials seeking to enlist the powers of journalism in support of their goals, and of journalists seeking to co-opt public and private officials into their efforts to find and cover stories of crisis and emergency response. It is the medium through which we Americans conduct most of our public business (and a lot of our private business) these days.” The result, he says, is a distortion of the constitutional role of government into an institution that must continually resolve or appear to resolve crises; it functions in “a new and powerful permanent emergency mode of operation.” From Harvard Business Review… https://hbr.org/1995/05/why-the-news-is-not-the-truth
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