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I hate that what pseuds figured out was most likely with basic internet research in a week early last year can only now be validated b/c NY Mag published an article, thus giving obedient “educated” people freedom to explore a newly allowed possibility. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
The effect is, 1 yr after the fact, to “de-politicize” the obvious, most plausible possibility that @zerohedge got banned from Twitter for pointing out early on. Of course, in truth this conscious decision is political, as is the power to “de-politicize” basic facts.
The ability to “de-politicize” or legitimate what is likely true/false & what is acceptable/unacceptable opinion=the difference btwn MSM v “alt” media. Silver lining is at no time in living memory has mainstream media been so distrusted. But much effort still needed to capitalize
But make no mistake: the power of “the news” has always been thus: their central power is not in reporting what was clear to anyone able to use Google search, but in deciding what can be discussed in the first place. What they leave out, not what they put in, is their super-power
The content is never as important as the context. What you are allowed to see through the window is never as important as its frame. The medium will alway be the most significant message.
