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> The idea of truth based on recorded media is a boat that sailed away long long ago.

And if it was ever here, it was only here for the blink of an eye, relatively speaking. Almost all of human history took place before recorded media was invented.

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You can read old George Orwell essays about his experience with the media in the Spanish Civil War that sound like they could have been written yesterday. He talks about how he felt the media was entering some sort of post truth era even then from the blatant lies and total split in reality the newspapers would have amongst themselves

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