Media Lens is excellent.
And yes, the UK mainstream aren’t going to call out their own appallingly low standards. Or that they’ve helped turn our politics, political reporting and the resulting public debate into the toxic basket case that’s been the driving force in the UK’s socio-economic decline.
Coincidentally, I was listening yesterday to Yuval Noah Harari of Sapiens fame talking of the need to drop the stories and narratives humans love to tell each other and see how the world really is. I think that’s the great problem we’re facing in the Information Age. We just haven’t dropped the story-telling trait which helped explain things we didn’t understand. Now the stories are getting in the way of the real objective truths that are right in front of us or at least accessible with a couple of mouse clicks.
Not just for this, but the Harari interview with Steve Levitt, the economist behind Freakonomics, is really worth listening to. Utterly refreshing to hear someone who sees the world and people as they really are, not how they want to see or portray themselves, their heritage and their future.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/yuval-noah-harari-thinks-life-is-meaningless-an |  |
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