I was speaking to a police officer a bit ago and he said something that frankly never occurred to me. When dealing with accused criminals and the like police officers remember that their convictions only reflect what they have been “caught” doing.
This is in fact what has happened with the media. It’s not that the media hasn’t played us for their own purposes in the past, it’s that now we know about it.
A mantra of the left is that in the 60’s our naivete concerning government was lifted from us, the truth is that naivete about the media is what the internet and the web and blogs has been destroyed forever.
How we use this knowledge is up to us. Hopefully we will use this perception better than the left perception did.
Update: I can’t help but visualizing the AP head editor asking the question: “Can we call it a Tallywacker?“
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