I mostly agree here with one important caveat. I think you cannot overstate the importance of Fox.
I was recently flipping through my kids history book and came to the section on the "Yellow Journalism Era". I find it profoundly funny that we still feel superior enough to comment on this period as if it was a huge aberration we must read …
I mostly agree here with one important caveat. I think you cannot overstate the importance of Fox.
I was recently flipping through my kids history book and came to the section on the "Yellow Journalism Era". I find it profoundly funny that we still feel superior enough to comment on this period as if it was a huge aberration we must read about as a discreet historical era.
We're living through a yellow journalism era. Of course Fox only gave the people what they wanted but there was ALWAYS a market for insanity. It was a strong code of professional ethics and a national response to yellow journalism that kept the "manufactured consent" era.
I wonder if Chomsky has stopped to reflect of the fact that the manufactured consent was actually a good thing.
Bit by bit the strong sense of duty and professional ethics was lost. It was gate keeping that kept the media honest. Fox obliterated that. And the left has been furiously trying to create a leftist Fox ever since.
The average person hasn't read McCluen or Chomsky. They haven't read Lenin or Goebbels. They say they distrust the media. In fact they completely trust THEIR media and distrust media that doesn't affirm their beliefs.
This was always here. It wasn't a mind virus of the 1800s. People purposefully stopped doing that for the good of the state and society.
Fox broke that consensus. It has been a catastrophe.
I mostly agree here with one important caveat. I think you cannot overstate the importance of Fox.
I was recently flipping through my kids history book and came to the section on the "Yellow Journalism Era". I find it profoundly funny that we still feel superior enough to comment on this period as if it was a huge aberration we must read about as a discreet historical era.
We're living through a yellow journalism era. Of course Fox only gave the people what they wanted but there was ALWAYS a market for insanity. It was a strong code of professional ethics and a national response to yellow journalism that kept the "manufactured consent" era.
I wonder if Chomsky has stopped to reflect of the fact that the manufactured consent was actually a good thing.
Bit by bit the strong sense of duty and professional ethics was lost. It was gate keeping that kept the media honest. Fox obliterated that. And the left has been furiously trying to create a leftist Fox ever since.
The average person hasn't read McCluen or Chomsky. They haven't read Lenin or Goebbels. They say they distrust the media. In fact they completely trust THEIR media and distrust media that doesn't affirm their beliefs.
This was always here. It wasn't a mind virus of the 1800s. People purposefully stopped doing that for the good of the state and society.
Fox broke that consensus. It has been a catastrophe.