"In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result." - New York City Neil Postman, 1985
re-read it and re-read it again. WE are LIVING in that __inevitable result__ in 2024. And really, relevant to Russia's meme warfare, we were in 2013 onward. The iPhone was created in mid 2007, Twitter in mid 2006.