(01-15-2017, 04:25 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Speaking of the line between opinion and reporting, how about NYT's new habit of rewriting articles after they have been posted in order to make sure the right "message" comes across? Nor are they the only ones to have been called out on it.
The modern media's problems run a lot deeper than Podesta's emails or some kids in Macedonia.
Revision, as for subsequent events. An obituary for Carrie Fisher that showed her mother Debbie Reynolds as still living became obsolete the next day.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.