In the old days (50s and 60s and 70’s and 80s), lies couldn’t be told much faster than Walter Cronkite could talk. He would spend several minutes each evening, broadcasting the assigned lies in a profound, avuncular manner. On other networks, similarly credible old white men read the very same lies from early teleprompters in the same slow, sincere way.
Most viewers would nod wisely as they absorbed each lie. Ideally, they would hear the same lie from two or three other sources, memorize it, and pass it on. “Opinion makers” is how the junior grades of liars were taught to view themselves.
Back then, when more people could read, “news” magazines were popular. They would elucidate and expand the latest lies in whatever section of society they were assigned to manipulate. Some sections specialized in “education” lies. Those in sections labeled “politics” specialized in political lies.
Lying then was so slow and ponderous that it might take the dimmer Americans months to fully understand the “dangers” of the latest, life-threatening problems.
In order to speed up the lies, while giving the vainest people on the planet a way to demonstrate that vanity, “talk” shows were invented. Staffed with key, reliable members of The Culture of Death, endless hours of “concerned” talk destroyed marriages, encouraged abortions, made life-shortening sexual practices seem “good for everyone involved”, and made belief in God seem to be a primitive superstition.
There was little contradiction to popular lies, and few ways to contradict them.
When the internet became popular, lies could be compared to truth very quickly. Lying had to be accelerated. The flood of lies necessary to prop up a fraud as blatant as Global Warming contained many contradictions and errors. Each contradiction and mistake prompted more truths to be told, which prompted more lies.
Now, many countries have outlawed any internet content concerning political issues. That’s easier for them to do than just tell the truth.
