By Gérald Bronner
This e-book discusses the media, ideals, the scoop, the net, and so on. however it shouldn't be obvious as yet one more critique of the media method, exploring with angry fascination the assumption of a machination opposed to fact organize to serve a society of domination. these kind of theories, whether or not they pertain to conspiracy theories or, extra subtly, to a self-styled "critical" mind set, have regularly the expression of a kind of highbrow puerility. this isn't to claim that makes an attempt at manipulating reviews don't take place, or that our global is unfastened from compromised rules, or certainly corruption; faraway from it, yet none of this is often the foremost issue.
In truth, truth can by some means be much more unsettling than these myths, although refined they are, that envisage the media process hand-in-hand with undefined, technology, etc, all in contract with a purpose to lead the "people" clear of the reality. it's extra unsettling as the approaches defined during this publication and that permit falsehood and dubiousness to clutch the general public sphere are boosted through the improvement of IT, the workings of our minds, and the very nature of democracy. and eventually, it really is extra unsettling simply because we're all liable for what's going to occur to us.
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