The news, despite our perception, has largely never been about speaking truth to the injustices around us. Both historically and now, its used largely as a veiled mouthpiece of the powerful around us who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The examples that we think of when groundbreaking journalism comes to mind are almost always the exception and often end poorly for the brave who bring them to light.
Over the past 5 years this has become even more salient to me. I've been to protests and the coverage will produce an entirely different picture that gets presented to those not in attendance. There were protests in my city during the party primary debates and the footage was edited to make crowds look smaller and in the case of our DSA chapter, they cut to a different camera anytime they were about to be in frame.
Trying not be be tin foil hatty there, but was at the marches and then watched all the different feeds. Calling something so obviously curated "news" feels like the information dystopia has been here much longer than we give it credit.
Granite