This is part about what troubles me…
in discussions of “media bias.” Is there such a thing? Of course there is. The
New York Times, for example, has had a hate-on for the Clintons since 1992. The imbalance in their 2016 coverage of the two contenders has been documented
ad nauseam. Implicit in these criticisms, whether they come from the left or the right, is the speaker’s stance: “Of course,
I, with my superior powers of discernment, can see right through these pathetic attempts to frame the narrative, but most of the citizenry, or should I say
sheeple, are weaker-minded than I, and frankly ought to be protected from these shamelessly slanted stories.”
It’s not too far from that to “fake news!” and from
that to
this.
cordially,