RIchard Rovere on Joe McCarthy: "He knew how to get into the news even on those rare occasions when invention failed him and he had no unfacts to give out."
Unfacts. I like that. It should be used next to everything Trump and his propagandists say.
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@jeffjarvis
Nice. “Alternative facts” is severely misleading because it creates a false equivalence, while “unfacts” rubs in the true nature of these fictions with no relation to reality.
Daniel Boorstin in The Image, on McCarthy and journalists: "Many hated him; all helped him. They were victims of what one of them called their 'indiscriminate objectivity.'...Newspapermen were his most potent allies, for they were his co-manufacturers of pseudo-events. They were caught in their own web. Honest newsmen and the unscrupulous Senator McCarthy were in separate branches of the same business."
@jeffjarvis 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼,
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