But then there are also people like the radio talk
show host Rush Limbaugh. They either see the world from their right-wing perspective
and reflect a politician’s utterance in a deformed way so they can believe
their own lies in the end. Or they simply alter a politician’s utterance in a
way that fits their own biases which suits their manipulative ways of shaping
people’s minds. I can not even tell which is worse.
So the given question if „the right wing’s media
manipulation of identity politics“ was „actually interested in the truth“
somehow gives the answer itself. Where there is manipulation, the absolute
truth can not be found. They are enemies. Opposites. Truth and manipulation can
not coexist.
Interestingly, the expression „truth“ is often being
used by religious cults that are known for manipulation of their (potential)
members. Mind controllers tend to give themselves an image of the only group of
people that has found pure truth. But, to say it in the words of Oscar Wilde’s
Algernon („The Importance of Being Earnest“): „The truth is barely pure and
never simple“.
Finding truth is just as complicated as defining it.
Anyways, I dare say that no one who manipulates others is actually interested
in the truth. Such a person is only interested in selfish goals or in supporting
those of the political parties or other groups they believe in. This is a
conclusion which has already caused enormous cracks in my glorious teenage
vision of journalism years ago. With freedom of the press comes the opportunity
for the so-called fourth estate to use its power for spreading personal ideas
concerning political biases. Truth is anything but the right wing media’s
interest.
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