Thursday, April 30, 2015

About the Wall Street Journal editorial page

Prof. Brad DeLong writes:
The point of the Wall Street Journal editorial page is to pander to the prejudices of its core readers. It is not as malevolent and destructive as Fox News, which takes its mission to be to scare its core readers so that they keep their eyeballs glued to the screen so that those eyeballs can be sold to advertisers. But its mission of reinforcing evidence-free right-wing epistemic closure against any incursion of empirical reality is a malevolent and destructive one.
As to why he writes the above, you'll have to read the article.

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It is not easy to believe your own lies. It takes a lot of work and effort.

In 1984 even Winston, while working at the Ministry of Truth, could not resist the crimethink.

Today, the self inflicted lies take things even beyond Orwells imagination.

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