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Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)

Uncertain Things

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Is the News Media Dishonest?

On the other side of the political spectrum, we have the lawsuit by Dominion voting systems against Fox News. What's fascinating to me is the different types of media dishonest anywhere on the liberal side you encounter what seems to be ideological blindness and unwillingness to admit otherwise. Whereas on Fox News, the story is much more cynical. People know that they're promulgating lies and they do it nevertheless. So I want to start here and wonder what it means as we start building towards a unified apocalypse.What does it mean that our authoritative sources of information are so corrupt either by ideological blindness or pure mercenary cynicism?

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