re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

To expand: I am not waxing nostalgic over some golden age of American journalism.

Uncle Walter was as much fiction as anything. Cronkite may have been a cut above today’s TV news casters, but the 1960’s and 1970’s were full of disinformation also.

And magical thinking.

Magical thinking is part of being Homo sapiens.

I am convinced that it is part of our evolution, and likely arose with us over 300kya.

But like anything we invent, we discover ways to use our inventions for bad as much as good.

And telecommunications falls right in line with that human trait.