Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
The news has always been slanted. Read up on newspapers in the 1790s or 1850s - or any period in US history. The myth of the impartial press in some bygone golden age is disingenuously used as part of the larger project to dismiss uncomfortable modern news in its entirety - “fake news.”So the internet is responsible for people in the news slanting everything. People became slanters in the news because of the internet.
Ok.
Not going to argue.
The advent of social media has destroyed any gatekeepers, who might have been biased but felt some obligation to the truth, and replaced them with a firehose of often bad faith nonsense. The intended result is to give people the “truth” they want or to make them give up on the very possibility of discerning the “truth.” That’s why we have such an increase in influential conspiracy theories and no shared sense of reality.