A New Year With Eyes Wide Open

A New Year With Eyes Wide Open
The New York Times logo is seen on a newspaper rack at a convenience store in Washington on Aug. 6, 2019. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The biggest change in public culture over the past five years has been the loss of trust in big media. It is not just that we now see that much of the spin is wrong. It is that we see that we are being manipulated for a purpose. Much of it comes with a narrative crafted to shape the public mind in a manner that serves a particular interest. This is glaringly obvious in ways that were not present in the past.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]