Back in April. Found myself longing for some DD News in the midst of all this COVID coverage overload....and it was exactly like it used to be..20 minutes of what happened on the day, and you are done...well, maybe a little government propaganda mixed in...but you do know it when that happens :)
That kinda got me thinking....We used to read newspapers, which was maybe 8 pages of what happened the previous day and one or two pages of opinion columns. There was enough time to get to know what happened before consciously going to the middle page and reading someone else's opinion, and you knew their background and where they were coming from before you took in that opinion.
Somewhere along the way we went into a 24 hour news and breaking news cycle. And then it became opinion pieces of the person on TV, while the real news slowly disappeared to the scroll at the very bottom. We are told what to believe, and we may or may not happen to read the 'real' news events scrolling below.
And then we went to social media. Now we read our friends and families opinions first, maybe see some opinion pieces on the news, and we never really hear the actual events that happened or take a break to think for ourselves..no touch with reality!!
Wonder what will come next?!
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