I thought the Trump/Russia hoax would finally force my liberal friends to demand a reckoning from their trusted news sources.
As the Mueller Report made clear, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR and so many others had egregiously and unequivocally misled them for years about the biggest political story since Watergate.
When I asked a True Believer about all this last week - a man whose scriptures are the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker magazine - my friend told me I should stop watching Fox News.
That's when I decided to turn the talk to baseball.
It has created a vast information ecosystem - one that extends beyond traditional news outlets to include magazines ranging from Harper's Bazaar to Teen Vogue, late night comedy shows, academic and scholarly journals, Netflix and Amazon Prime, and on and on - that echoes and re-enforces its agenda.
The left's intentional substitution of propaganda for facts has turned the national discourse into a blizzard of BS. The latest example occurred last week when the deranged sex addict who murdered eight people at three Atlanta massage parlors was portrayed as an anti-Asian white supremacist.
This was false, but because it fit the preferred narrative, facts didn't matter to President Biden or progressive news outlets.
Sunday, March 28, 2021
The Tale Wags the Dog as News Becomes Propaganda
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