Francis Foster

And then we also see the emergence of the media critic, the person who criticizes media coverage and basically taps everyone back into line.

This starts roughly with Walter Lippmann, but it really takes off in the 1950s.

And by the 1970s, a lot of places have media critics and people, journalists,

live in fear of being criticized by the media critic.

And so if you look at what they're doing, they're creating more and more institutional strengths to try to drive the media in one direction, to tamp down dissent, to be the anti-Internet to the greatest extent possible.

And in the course of doing this, they're actually producing a very different kind of news than what I originally described.

They want to write the orthodox official opinion.

And we see the climax of this in COVID.

How dare you report on dissenting views?

How dare you cover ivermectin?

How dare you say this?

How dare you say that?

Well, there's no how dare you in journalism.

If it's true, report it.

If it's not true,

Say someone's spreading a lie and prove that.

But there's no... Without fear or favor, as the New York Times is famous saying back in the day, what about that?

It's a great standard.

And reality is incredibly complex and ever-changing to think that it always...

that the orthodoxy of the people in charge always comports a reality, it's just a childish point of view.