INGERSOLL: Let Us Never Forget About Dr. Fauci … Especially Now

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 30: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci (L) bumps elbows with CNN correspondent Jim Acosta following the daily coronavirus briefing at the Rose Garden of the White House on March 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. The United States has updated its guidelines to U.S. citizens to maintain current social distancing practices through the end of April after the number of reported coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths doubled to over 2,000 nationwide within two days. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

We’re going to keep this one short. Homie’s got tons to do and little time to do it.

It was a little more than 100 years ago that Walter Lippmann referred to the media as a “spotlight.” According to Lippmann, there was so much going on in the world that a media functioning properly as a steward of the people would “spotlight” those issues and happenings of most pertinence to its respective audience, leaving most everything else in the dark.

Among intellectual elites in the world of mass communication, Lippmann would go on to become the godfather of both modern journalism and public relations. There is, more times than not lately, little difference between the two.

Lippmann would also coin the term “manufacture of consent” – often attributed to Noam Chomsky – and while so doing, at least admit that institutions most relied upon to reveal and “spotlight” truth could also be used for the purposes of propaganda. He was 100 years ahead of the wider public in pointing out how individual reporters........

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