There Is a ‘Paid News’ Epidemic
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”
words, debate, discussion and dissent are tolerated only as long as they are within these predefined boundaries. The authors use many examples including the Vietnam War, which the mainstream media started criticising only after tremendous losses were suffered by the United States and it became increasingly clear that the war was not theirs to win. Even then, any discussion on the morality of the actual act of going to a foreign, sovereign nation