Ask anyone from the former USSR about gaslighting. The only difference in 21st-century America is that it's the media dealing lies instead of the Politburo.
You're a wise man and I found personal insight from your US.,,.BS. From about 14 years old I wanted to be an engineer, now I have 45 years of professional experience behind me. I always questioned why?? I now recognize engineering is truth. High tech is very complicated so one takes pride, immense pride, in a very complex device being practical to build which performs properly.
But there are other truth creators: they are the doers, builders of dams and houses, those repairing roads and air conditioners and elevators. Their accomplishments are tested by reality and must pass.
The current crop of “elites”, as they foolishly identify themselves, never have been tested by reality. They've degenerated to feeling they can make stuff, anything, up and believe their fantasy is truth---until reality happens, their fantasy collapses with dire consequences to us all.
The media is what it is because that's where the most profit is! It's the people who watch the bullshit, support the advertisers, buy their crap and every evening watch the crap again while they stuff their face with the processed crap being advertised...it's the audience that's made the media!
To your point - I subscribed to the NYT a while back. I was prepared for all the bias and BS that is in its DNA, but what I was not prepared for was the amount oof just trite, frivolous nonsense they publish. An article today arguing that grandmothers should wear and proudly flaunt their sometimes sagging bodies in bikinis was typical. “All the news that’s fit to print”?
"Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States." https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism
More recently a good argument could be made that the media lost us the Viet Nam War without going into the topic of whether we should have participated at all.
You're a wise man and I found personal insight from your US.,,.BS. From about 14 years old I wanted to be an engineer, now I have 45 years of professional experience behind me. I always questioned why?? I now recognize engineering is truth. High tech is very complicated so one takes pride, immense pride, in a very complex device being practical to build which performs properly.
But there are other truth creators: they are the doers, builders of dams and houses, those repairing roads and air conditioners and elevators. Their accomplishments are tested by reality and must pass.
The current crop of “elites”, as they foolishly identify themselves, never have been tested by reality. They've degenerated to feeling they can make stuff, anything, up and believe their fantasy is truth---until reality happens, their fantasy collapses with dire consequences to us all.
Amen, brother. Newton's laws don't care what you think about "ways of knowing."
The media is what it is because that's where the most profit is! It's the people who watch the bullshit, support the advertisers, buy their crap and every evening watch the crap again while they stuff their face with the processed crap being advertised...it's the audience that's made the media!
To your point - I subscribed to the NYT a while back. I was prepared for all the bias and BS that is in its DNA, but what I was not prepared for was the amount oof just trite, frivolous nonsense they publish. An article today arguing that grandmothers should wear and proudly flaunt their sometimes sagging bodies in bikinis was typical. “All the news that’s fit to print”?
https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/why-i-canceled-my-subscription-to-the-new-york-times/article_6740c099-3d48-56fe-8a5b-485e60185bac.html
Fantastic piece! Maybe we should coin a new name “mediocre-cracy.”
History repeats:
"Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States." https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism
More recently a good argument could be made that the media lost us the Viet Nam War without going into the topic of whether we should have participated at all.