I found this at The View from Lady Lake today and it struck me as interesting.
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Was there ever a time or a place where the news was treated as a valued commodity and it was regulated as if it was a commodity such as gold? Was there a news assayer who put his mark on the product to inform the public that this was in fact 99.9% true and accurate news?
Of course the interesting thing about that is, why would anyone ever suspect that such was ever the case? What aspect of the news leads people to believe that there is no person or organization whose objective is to sway the people by presenting them only one sort of information while claiming to be representative of all the news sources? The news was all about competition for readers eyes, attentions and wallets. It instantly veered to the entertainment side of the column.
Oh sure, some of us were young when 60 minutes started up and may even have believed that they were serious journalists whose sole interest was ferreting out the truth. It only took one instance of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect to bring you up short on the idea that the news is or ever could be completely factual and free of error. That's what I liked about this clip.
Everything we think we know about a civilization and a culture came from a couple of rooms.
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