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Why Traditional Media Is Unreliable
Within the past twenty years, societies around the globe, particularly in the Global North and developed nations, have become incredibly uniform, killing off the diversity of thought and culture and, in some ways, variety in how we live our lives.
Just take a walk in your local public centres and places of gathering, particularly in cities, and you will witness how uninformed people have become.
Propaganda only works when you have an uninformed society, and in our world, we can’t even agree on what colour the sky is anymore.
So yeah, propaganda is doing just fine here in the USA, the United Kingdom and the Anglosphere/English-speaking world.
The reasons for disruptive change are the rise of new technologies in the late 20th century and how our societies respond to them, with societies becoming less localised and more of a national, if not international, focus.
New Technologies
The whirlwind of technological change began with the fax machine, eliminating the staff that once served as fact-checkers for stories before publication.
