Truth Dies in Darkness
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2023/04/...arkness-minick/
In Politics, Culture
April 17, 2023
Jeff Minick


Can you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave.

A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be careful what they say in the classroom for fear of inadvertently offending a student. This same school assigns each of its high school students a faculty member as an advisor.

Recently, my acquaintance—let’s call him Tom—was meeting with an advisee, a senior, whom he considers the brightest student in her class. During their conversation, she mentioned that she didn’t care for Elon Musk. When Tom asked for her thoughts on Musk’s release of the Twitter Files, she had no idea what he was talking about.

Her ignorance surprised him. Afterward, as he was walking to his classroom, Tom decided to conduct a little experiment. He stopped a colleague in the hallway and asked what she thought about Elon Musk, Twitter, and the recent congressional hearings regarding Twitter and government censorship. She shrugged and said: “Sorry. I really have no idea what you mean.” From the rest of their conversation, Tom learned that his colleague took her news from The Washington Post and corporate television.

These encounters provide only anecdotal evidence of ignorance as well as censorship and suppression by corporate media and so must be approached gingerly as to their meaning and consequences. Nonetheless, if we multiply that teacher by millions of others who rely on the corporate media, we can conclude that many Americans are unaware of the import of the Twitter Files.

When I told Tom’s story to another acquaintance, she remarked, “It’s like we’re living in two different universes.”

In the alternative universe, reporters and commentators sculpt the news to make it fit a cultural and political agenda. In the recent school shooting in Nashville, for example, where a mentally ill woman identifying as a man murdered six Christians, including three children, some in the media and certain politicians tried to shape a narrative more sympathetic to the killer than to the victims.

Moreover, in the first reports of that mass shooting, we were told that the murderer had left behind a manifesto. That was over two weeks ago, yet the manifesto remains under wraps. -- excerpt, rest at link above --