The truth is out there. But where?
“60 Minutes” is a self-mythologizing institution that features stories on splashy technological innovations (heavy on the medical science, because we ain’t getting any younger), national security and defense issues, celebrities who have achieved iconic status in New York, plus the occasional “Gee whiz, look at what the kids are into” feature.
There are a lot of stories exposing flaws in our defense system, always with the “our country’s secret peril” angle.
[...] prominent is fact-challenged reporter Lara Logan reporting on how the military is wonderful and handsome and charming, and how the Islamic State hates Christians.
Nothing better than to get conservative Christians on board with the disastrous hawkish fantasies Logan has been promoting all along.
The show is government company line all the way.
In Sunday’s program, in a segment on flaws in security clearances, correspondent Scott Pelley went out of his way to slime Edward Snowden, based on utterly no evidence.
The latest show also had a piece on CERN, the gigantic collider in Switzerland that sends protons rushing into each other at insane speeds.
There was also a little educated chat about string theory, multidimensional universes and dark matter.
How many Republican presidential candidates care about this stuff?
The ethos of the commercial Internet, the scrambling quest for eyeballs at any cost, means that mitigating factors are ignored.
Who cares if it was one study following 13 people for six months, if Science Proves Potatoes Cause Cancer can generate website traffic?
Who cares if Jeb Bush is visiting his ill housekeeper at her home, if Bush’s Secret Love House gets 20 million unique viewers?
[...] they weren’t.
According to the GOP, information is just a liberal trap.