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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem.
Remember, perhaps the most important commodity in politics is attention: mass media failed us this election by focusing on trivia while not doing enough to follow and correctly report huge stories. Our attention was diluted into trivia and gossip and unjustified mass hacks that were actually political sabotage, not whistleblowing, and in some cases misinformation.
- News organizations are a public trust with the ability to inform and influence the public conversation.
- I know. That’s why I bought one.
Newsroom S01E03
Remember that the thing that is most likely to be wrong is the thing that you heard most recently, because we've not had the chance to verify it yet.