Or he’ll say i knew all along that CNN wouldnt come to the party…therefore i was right all along…and that proves that they are FAKE NEWS
I dunno, sounds like you’re saying William Randolph Hearst was one of the best examples I could give. Also, you’ll notice I didn’t say ‘That’s what Gutenberg’s goal was’. I said that’s ‘why the Gutenberg Press was so revolutionary’. If the impact of a thing was at all dependent on the motivations of the inventor, we would live in a far better world than we do now.
Influencing common thought is absolutely the goal of good reporting. Do you want people to know the truth? Then you want to influence how and what they’re thinking. There’s no way around that. to educate someone is to influence the way they think.
And thanks for bringing up the example of the US Military’s efforts to use dry facts and figures (even false ones) without narrative or evocation… and just how badly it failed. No, a single war reporter doesn’t singlehandedly mold common thought with one report. Please point to where I said that they do, instead of saying literally just the opposite. Why does it mean different things to different people? Because in their lives they’ve been exposed to, inundated with, and steeped in different narratives, from different sources. I promise, very few of them have direct experience with a ‘massive barrage’. Everything else is what they’ve been told.