“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” 1984, George Orwell.
And then came Trump… or did he? Journalists all over the world hold their heads in despair, some even in shame. We are all tarred now with the ‘fake news’ brush, fingers point at traditional/mass media and the verdict is that we are all guilty. We’ve apparently eroded the confidence of our audiences by taking sides and peddling lies, and we have damaged democracy in the process.
The fact is, journalists are easy scapegoats in societies enamoured of their new social media friends, who aren’t quite ready to accept their part in propagating what we have come to call ‘fake news’. Who hasn’t shared, liked and praised stories, memes or pictures without fact-checking them, just because they came from someone familiar, even if vaguely so?
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merry christmas to you. merry christmas to you. starting bear what is the meaning of the season and are we in america still embracing that meeting? are we seeing the fallaway i miss the other things you have to do in the holiday season, the wrapping and running last-minute christmas i mean. well, it has become more secularized. you know it s interesting, molly, some things never change. 2000 years ago the world was fixated on a government funding crisis. the emperor decided to have a worldwide census for the purpose of taxation. little did he know that his order would cause a jewish couple he had never met to travel to a tiny town he had never heard of to give birth to the savior of the world. 2000 years later most people in our audience can even tell you the name of that emperor octavian, but everybody knows the name of that baby, the baby