The “outbreak” started years ago when the twenty-four hour news cycle broke onto the scene by stoking fear for ratings out of a necessity for content. We used to only get an hour of local news every night — itself needing to be bolstered by a public interest story or two — with a few national programs enlightening us on world events. Information dispersal became editorializing. Editorializing became for-profit politicization wherein truth was filtered through a partisan prism pre-packaged for Election Day rather than relevancy. News became entertainment, snuff videos of beheadings and tragedies a click away on the internet for us to bask in a nationalist fervor of retribution and bloodlust. Race, religion, sexual orientation, and culture became our enemies as that pre-manufactured fear transformed into strength through hate.
America isn’t alone in this. Nations around the world are beholden to state-sanctioned news sources feeding a skewed truth and their...
America isn’t alone in this. Nations around the world are beholden to state-sanctioned news sources feeding a skewed truth and their...
- 11/1/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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