So it’s a recent phenomenon that people have expected news to be neutral. Historically, everyone figured there was always some sort of bias. When I say recent, I mean the past 30 or 40 years. And news always had some kind of falsehood to it, either as a tilted analysis, omission of details, or even straight lies.
I think it’s more the arrival of social media that allowed bad actors to get their bogus news out so much faster. By reducing the barrier to entry, organizations that could fail if seen as illegitimate are no longer the gatekeepers of information. Of course, that wasn’t a perfect system anyway (see Fox News), but it prevented things from catching like wildfire.
The 24-hour news cycle didn’t help, either
But fuck US politicians, right wing ones particularly so
So it’s a recent phenomenon that people have expected news to be neutral. Historically, everyone figured there was always some sort of bias. When I say recent, I mean the past 30 or 40 years. And news always had some kind of falsehood to it, either as a tilted analysis, omission of details, or even straight lies.
I think it’s more the arrival of social media that allowed bad actors to get their bogus news out so much faster. By reducing the barrier to entry, organizations that could fail if seen as illegitimate are no longer the gatekeepers of information. Of course, that wasn’t a perfect system anyway (see Fox News), but it prevented things from catching like wildfire.
The 24-hour news cycle didn’t help, either
But fuck US politicians, right wing ones particularly so