Also half-way through, will start from where I've left off later on (
much later) tomorrow.
A very-interesting exposition.
And from it, I've seen nothing that contradicts my standing mantras of contemporary society being nothing more than artificial governments, false simplistic national strategies and goals, distraction hoaxes and a post-truth news synthesis of edutainment and bogeymen.
I (and some others) have been dimly-aware of so-called 'false' news across much of our world for over three decades, but it has probably been happening for a lot longer than that...it did
not just arrive with Trump and Putin, and if you, Dear Reader, honestly think that it did, then I feel as sorry for you as I would for a recovering cultist or a child being softly given the Father Christmas talk at Easter.
EDIT
(An overnight addendum, in the cold dark of pre-dawn). This work by Curtis, will (of course, by necessity) not be an entire absolute truth in itself. It will be a slice of simplification, an agenda-riven fable of intent (or, someone's cleared-for-broadcast calculated content). But it could be
truer to the realer societal realities.
Sometimes, the only evasive defensive truth
is a cards-on-the-table admission of fact (this I have seen many times, in the most adversorial systems we, humans, ever practise). That admission/concession does
not make it entirely without gile or strategic intent, at some other so-far-undetectable level.
'Facts' in selected stacks, arranged in considered sequence,
can build castles of constructed myth: keep your facts close- but keep your fables even closer still).
EDIT2
all journalism is propaganda
This is inarguably one of the only absolute truths. I would ask, please, that everyone does remember this axiomatic fact, and not dismiss it on a serial "but (today's report)
must always be true, because....well, to think otherwise would be paranoid delusion" basis. Being paranoid does not make you always wrong. That is (without conflation) tantamount to saying/thinking that being pessimistic always makes you wrong. What will always make you wrong is the passive acceptance of proffered narrative and reportage always
without questioning it.