We posted this a year ago - March 17,, 29230 - and things haven't changed much.
Sam Smith - In my lifetime the worst presidents – Reagan and Trump – repeatedly demonstrated the dangers in using show business as a useful guide in exercising constitutional democracy, and repeatedly the public had responded warmly.We tend to blame the news media for many of the current failures of our system, but the far less noticed fact is that politics has become a form of show business. As just one example, a Pew Research Center survey found that about ten percent of US adults get at least some of their news from TikTok and for those under 30, the figure is 26%. Because I have few other skills, I shall continue to practice journalism as best I can but I do so in recognition that it has lost much of it status to the art of performing fantasies and providing fictions and fibs. If there are no rules and nothing matters, facts are a pretty dull alternative to show business.
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