Running for Your Life: The News

Here’s a gruesome thought that bears repeating.:

When news is boiled down to the tao of profits or what accounts for the explanation of events in an unprincipled state like Russia, the end result is propaganda.

Money paves the race to the bottom; a sad loser-strewn skid row is the route to the top.

Does news that’s regulated by a “fairness doctrine” find any traction?

Or have the competing sides polluted, drained the merit out of the nonpartisan objective of news as an objective vehicle in the never-ending quest for a secular truth?

Perhaps Clive James said it best in his book, “Cultural Amnesia:”

“Truly unprincipled states never blush.”

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