All the News that Fits 0
Lance Dutson, a Maine Republican think-tanker, is dismayed to realize that one of the things he helped tank was truth. Here’s a bit of his article; I urge you to read the whole thing (emphasis added).
What I didn’t understand then was how destructive a total lack of common reality could be. While I chided the filtered evening news model, I didn’t realize we’d replace it with an anarchic ecosystem of unvalidated truths. I never imagined conservatives could be so successful in undermining the credibility of the traditional media, and I never envisioned a world where common truth ceased to exist.
(snip)
In this model, stories do not need to be true, or fair. They need to make people mad enough to share them.
Sympathy escapes me.