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There are 6 choices you need to make if you don’t want to be sucked in by Trump (or anyone else).
There is a seismic shift underway in how the world looks at the United States, how the United States looks at itself and how everybody understands truth. I used to teach people about Public Relations. I would teach that we have “media” because they “mediate” truth. These days, while that might be the origin of the word, the reality of the function is not so simple. Yesterday I watched one of my favourite journalists, Chuck Todd, reach a point where he declared that he no longer had the words, quoting a sports commentator who once declared “I can’t believe what my eyes are seeing.” It seems as though the biggest…
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For the foreseeable future, we cannot just assume that people who proclaim themselves to be authorities are telling the truth.
On October 30, the CBS news in America announced that an invasion had begun. From the moment the broadcast started the audience of about 32 million people was transfixed in horror as they began to understand that the future of the whole world was now being threatened. People started to panic. Once the director of the programming realized the impact of the broadcast, he made the choice to make a public announcement. “This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that *The War of the Worlds* has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be: The Mercury Theatre’s own radio…