Saturday, September 14, 2019

Fake news derangement


In the 1960’s I saw the news cycle get ahead of the government. Photojournalists were sending satellite images of the war in Vietnam before the next White House press conference. People grew distrustful of the government’s version of events. I believe this is what Trump is fighting when he calls the mainstream media ‘fake news’. They defy his attempts at framing events and controlling the narrative. Label it what he will ...we're not going back to the fifties. Everyone knows the speed of information is accelerating, which makes his attempts at controlling it look about as effective as trying to package water from a fire hose.