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Not being listened to and then spending 40 years of having pundits call you naïve and not strategic enough is the price of being right in America. Remember all those pundits who were fired for being catastrophically wrong about the Iraq war? No? Because there were basically zero.
In corporate media, it’s better to be conventionally wrong than unconventionally right. The job is not to be right; it’s to shape opinions.
Not being listened to and then spending 40 years of having pundits call you naïve and not strategic enough is the price of being right in America. Remember all those pundits who were fired for being catastrophically wrong about the Iraq war? No? Because there were basically zero.
In corporate media, it’s better to be conventionally wrong than unconventionally right. The job is not to be right; it’s to shape opinions.