What is the one factor that confounds the dream of an informed citizenry more than any other? I'll give you a hint: it's news organizations with an agenda masquerading as harbingers of truth.
Think about it, if you knew no better, you could turn on Fox News, listen to their insistent tone and seemingly authoritative factual backing and, with no questions, follow them into the mouth of hell itself, offense intended. Psychologically speaking, without the blessing of foreknowledge, one is powerless to the pulls of an authoritative demeanor, which leads to a daily conflation of fact and fiction at the whims of whoever is pulling the corporate strings.
Did I jump into that too early? Well no turning back now: what is it that leads a "news" organization down the road to journalistic perdition? Sensationalism aside, news agencies have little to make off of the public by spouting biased political facts. Well, thanks to John B, we may finally have an answer:
The Media-Lobbying Complex
by Sebastian Jones
I refuse to spoil this one. It's simply too good a read.
Please, ingest and comment. How is it that this sort of thing goes so unnoticed or so un-cared-about?
1 comment:
Nice link. :)
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