Nobody Cares About ‘the News’

Click here to access article by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation.

In his mordant novel Scoop, Evelyn Waugh has one of his characters explain what "The News" is:

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

There is a great deal of wisdom in this little remark that I will attempt to unpack. It also, in my opinion, succinctly explains why we, who believe ourselves to be so brilliantly analytical and persuasive on sites like this one, have so little success in changing the opinions of our friends and neighbours (or awakening them as we might prefer to say).

Also, I think that the minds of ordinary people in the USA have been rendered largely ineffective to adequately interpret the propaganda which has been carefully crafted by the ruling capitalist class through their control over all institutions--most especially education, media, and entertainment.