Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein

Selling the story of disinformation

September 2021 Issue [Report] Bad News Selling the story of disinformation by Joseph Bernstein , Illustrations by Dan Bejar [Report] Bad News Selling the story of disinformation by Joseph Bernstein , Adjust Share In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours of work and turn on his television and know where he stood in relation to his wife, and his children, and his neighbors, and his town, and his country, and his world. And that was good. Or he could open the local paper in the morning in the ritual fashion, taki

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