Media will change when a frolicking squirrel interests us more than a wrecked car on the side of a road
I know that writers writing about writing can be a special form of torture, but as the clapped out merry-go-round of our news cycle takes another turn and we cling to the sticky poles of the fake horsies and get ready for one more predictable journey to nowhere, I feel a duty to warn my readers that this column is the product of censorship and is therefore not a trustworthy lens through which to view the present moment.
To be clear, I’m not talking about editorial censorship. No editor has ever asked me to change more than a spelling mistake. I’m also not talking about the politically lucrative idea, popularised by Hitler and now being revived by the political right, that traditional media companies are a lügenpresse, a press of lies, controlled by a cabal of [insert bigotry du jour]. ..
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