Hi 8Geee.8Geee wrote:In the last 20 years, disinformation as been "broadcast" within... not exported. This merely coincides with the rise of the internet in the mid-90's. But what aa great tool !
You see Short-Wave Radio, that bastion of 20th Century disinformmation / propaganda is about as dead as a door nail. For the price of a $20 radio and a pair of AA's, one could hear all the major countries spew their slant of the news. Now it takes a computer, internet connection, and AC-mains. 2/3 of the world cannot do the latter, and 3/4 of the world can do the former.
Fake News... propaganda dissemination for the entitled, and entertainment for the gossip-lovers.
But we are devolving by hear-say as opposed to evolving by facts. We're just too damn lazy to look-it-up or check-the-facts.
Regards
8Geee
You're basically right about the laziness part. It's too bad human legs
are not designed to give their owner an automatic kick in the butt when
said owner is lazy.
But not all short-wave radio was disinformation! As a kid, we had a big
Telefunken stereo cabinet in the living room through which mom and I
listened to the Tchaikovsky Contest finals live from Moscow!
Hearing the best new classical musical talents of the time play live!
Great music! Great experience! The Internet can't give you this.
BFN.