OPINION:
People in America, including our president, are laboring under the misconception that the mainstream media is producing “fake news,” when the reality is that it is cranking out counterfeit news created to destabilize our duly elected administration. “Counterfeit” more accurately describes this product, as it is being intentionally crafted to appear genuine and is deliberately meant to deceive the consumer as real media to be consumed and exchanged in the information marketplace.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippman argued that people, including journalists, are more apt to believe “the pictures in their heads” than to come to judgment by critical thinking. Mr. Lippmann believed “the mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation” and hence they don’t closely examine the bogus media currency they so readily pocket before diving back to their little electronic distraction toys. They are truly insulted when they attempt to exchange their fake media “pocket money” with others who easily recognize their ignorance of current affairs.
K.J. DOLNEY
Columbia, S.C.
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