before those two pinko commies created fb/tw nobody would be mad
before those two pinko commies created fb/tw nobody would be mad
I'll bite.
I think the modern day freedom of information and globalization is overall a good thing, but you're right that it means we can edit a clip together of enough evidence to paint any picture we want. One news station can easily find video of a few cases of cops brutalizing citizens while another station can find just as many showing criminals targeting cops. The world is big enough that anything that happens does so many times, so we can make anything look like a big deal if we make a one-sided argument. It's easy to flood the market with slanted stories now. The world looks really bad when you can take all the bad apples and put them in the same feature about the topic of your choice.