[quote=harvey][quote=zk]That ruse, as I’ve said on this forum before, is one of the most brilliant strokes of propaganda in the history of American propaganda.[/quote]
Absolutely.
Ironically it was information technology that enabled the ignorance. It started with cable television in the 1980s. With effectively unlimited TV channels piped into every home in America, big media could customize channels to particular viewpoints. Viewers only watched the news channels that reported what they wanted to hear. Journalists no longer had to be balanced to reach a broad audience.
And then the internet took it many steps further.
Fox News, Limbaugh and the rest saw this opportunity and capitalized on it, big time.
Brilliant and sinister.[/quote]
As was predicted by Bradbury.
Technology is awesome. It makes normal shitheads into super shitheads.
