No truthfulness in news media

“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.”

— George Orwell, Looking back on the Spanish War, 1943

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The Chicago Thinker Staged a Media Regime Takedown This Week—Here’s How We Did It

University of Chicago students and a bunch of out of touch media elites who were absolutely wrecked.

The thought never occurred to me until you "fact-checked" it.