https://www.halphillips.net/right-wing-media-mantra-im-not-okay-youre-not-okay?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=right-wing-media-mantra-im-not-okay-youre-not-okay Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sun, 09 Sep 2018 11:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/right-wing-media-mantra-im-not-okay-youre-not-okay#comment-801 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:42:41 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=3040#comment-801 Your Wesleyan education wasn’t wasted, Hal. There’s a lot of “truth” in what you’re saying here. I think the right is actually right when it says that the mainstream media is against it — mostly because so many of the right’s recent stances and objectives are so insidiously wrong. Any fact-based journalist would just have to be left scratching his or her head upon reading or hearing what today’s right-wingers are espousing. And the lack of any kind of agreement on what constitutes objective truth is very much at the core of the issue. At a recent book reading, I asked novelist Neal Stephenson what scared him the most about today’s world and his response, without hesitation, was: “the absence of any shared reality.” We’re now seeing clearly what the results of its absence have led to.

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