Here is commentary from Charlie Warzel:
It’s become routine these days to hear people describe the churning cycle of politics and news, tossed back and forth between Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, comments sections, and television, as “broken.” You can feel the nation’s blood pressure rising as the election approaches, and the specter of political violence gets closer and closer. But this isn’t a broken system: There’s order to the madness. In fact, what feels broken is the product of a well-oiled machine in which all participants seem to know their specific roles.
The end result is a near-perfect union of many of the darkest forces in American culture — the collision of toxic hyperpartisanship, sensationalized media, and a mature online ecosystem that seems to incentivize and accelerate the worst impulses and behaviors. And if the past is any indication of future performance, it will only get worse. The machine is not broken, it’s firing on all cylinders.
You can read the rest @
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/false-flags-mail-bombs-media-trump-internet
I think that if we had true "freedom of the press", there would be a lot more variation in what is presented as the news. Don't you? Instead, we seem to be getting an "official version" from just about all the major sources, and (if you bother to look for it) a "minority report" from the rest.
Would you call that "a well-oiled machine" or collusion?
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