The extraordinary coincidence of Donald Trump and Jussie Smollett both being "Cleared" of significant "Crimes" last week provides a remarkable vantage point for asking "What if everything you know is fake?".
That's the subtitle of my new book, "The Media Matrix," which is an attack on what the president calls Fake News, but more importantly a recurring question about whether any of us is smart enough to penetrate the disinformation campaign being waged 24/7 by not just the mainstream media, but also by the "Information technology" that has become the very environment in which we live.
That's where the stories of Donald Trump and Jussie Smollett become instructive counterweights at either end of the Media Matrix.
Last week, we were told by Attorney General William Barr that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation against Trump had found no collusion with Russia.
Even for the most gullible of news consumers, the revelation in October 2017 that Hillary Clinton had paid for the so-called Steele Dossier of Russian-supplied dirt should have steered the story from "What did Donald Trump do?" to "What did Hillary Clinton do?" For many of us, it was the final nail in the coffin of the Russia hoax, but not for the major media, not for the Democrats in Congress, not for Mueller himself.
The media assured us, it was the fault of people like me - Trump supporters, white people, irredeemable deplorables - that violence was being done upon the helpless.
After what happened to Trump, what happened to Smollett, what happened to Covington student Nick Sandmann when he had his name and his MAGA hat dragged through the mud, the question now should be, "What if everything you know is fake?" Unfortunately, when you put that question to Siri or Alexa or Google, there is no answer but an eerie electronic silence.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/01/what_if_everything_you_know_is_fake_139906.html
That's the subtitle of my new book, "The Media Matrix," which is an attack on what the president calls Fake News, but more importantly a recurring question about whether any of us is smart enough to penetrate the disinformation campaign being waged 24/7 by not just the mainstream media, but also by the "Information technology" that has become the very environment in which we live.
That's where the stories of Donald Trump and Jussie Smollett become instructive counterweights at either end of the Media Matrix.
Last week, we were told by Attorney General William Barr that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation against Trump had found no collusion with Russia.
Even for the most gullible of news consumers, the revelation in October 2017 that Hillary Clinton had paid for the so-called Steele Dossier of Russian-supplied dirt should have steered the story from "What did Donald Trump do?" to "What did Hillary Clinton do?" For many of us, it was the final nail in the coffin of the Russia hoax, but not for the major media, not for the Democrats in Congress, not for Mueller himself.
The media assured us, it was the fault of people like me - Trump supporters, white people, irredeemable deplorables - that violence was being done upon the helpless.
After what happened to Trump, what happened to Smollett, what happened to Covington student Nick Sandmann when he had his name and his MAGA hat dragged through the mud, the question now should be, "What if everything you know is fake?" Unfortunately, when you put that question to Siri or Alexa or Google, there is no answer but an eerie electronic silence.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/01/what_if_everything_you_know_is_fake_139906.html
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