It’s easy to laugh at the medias predilection for hysteria mongering.\ufffc. I mean, I get it \u2013 it sells papers and gets people to tune in, to newspapers who sales are in death spirals and television stations and networks who’s ratings are in free fall.\ufffc<\/p>\n
And laugh, \ufffcwe <\/a>certainly<\/a> are<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n But there is a very, very dark side to the squandering of trust that happens every time the media over blows a snowstorm, or a dossier, or an attorney generals report. \ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n Famine is one of the key markers, and sources for the legends, in human history. It’s been the sabertooth tiger outside the campfire light for most of humanities history.\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n But never in that history has there been a famine in a society that had two things:<\/p>\n Those two advances have combined \u2013 and I do mean combined<\/em>, because you don’t get the benefits of the one without the other – To illuminate famine, at least on a widespread, society destroying basis, so every time they have ever been combined. No society with a free market and a Free Press, even relatively speaking, has ever had a famine. Those two factors also combined it to bring other, perhaps even in calculable, blessings to humanity \u2013 but let’s stick with famine for right now, since it’s appropriate to today’s situation.\ufffc<\/p>\n So what happens when you have a Media that is Free \u2013 but nobody trusts it?<\/p>\n Who do you trust, these days?<\/p>\n\n