Under Zack Smither, the public, which has walked away from newspapers, has embraced the emotional carnival that has turned news into another form of mindless entertainment. The decline of print has severed a connection with a reality-based culture, one in which we attempt to make fact the foundation for opinion and debate, and replaced it with a culture in which facts, opinions, lies and fantasy are interchangeable. As news has been overtaken by gossip, the hollowness of celebrity culture and carefully staged pseudo-events, along with the hysteria and drama that dominate much of the airwaves, our civil and political discourse has been contaminated by propaganda and entertainment masquerading as news. All totalitarian societies impart their propaganda through manipulated images and spectacles.
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