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By Gérald Bronner
This booklet discusses the media, ideals, the scoop, the web, and so on. however it shouldn't be visible as one more critique of the media method, exploring with angry fascination the belief of a machination opposed to fact organize to serve a society of domination. all these theories, whether or not they pertain to conspiracy theories or, extra subtly, to a self-styled "critical" state of mind, have regularly looked to be the expression of a sort of highbrow puerility. this isn't to claim that makes an attempt at manipulating critiques don't ensue, or that our international is unfastened from compromised rules, or certainly corruption; faraway from it, yet none of this can be the foremost issue.
In truth, fact can in some way be much more unsettling than these myths, besides the fact that refined they are, that envisage the media procedure hand-in-hand with undefined, technological know-how, etc, all in contract in order to lead the "people" clear of the reality. it's extra unsettling as the tactics defined during this publication and that permit falsehood and dubiousness to seize the general public sphere are boosted through the advance of IT, the workings of our minds, and the very nature of democracy. and at last, it truly is extra unsettling simply because we're all liable for what's going to take place to us.
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