This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
There's a lot you can say about the world's second oldest profession. Not much of it is very good, though. Let's face it. Journalism leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Watch five minutes of mainstream media if you feel the need to refresh your taste buds. And it's not just because journalists are cunning opportunists who don't respect the most basic ethical norms. They are also deceitful hypocrites and money-grubbing hacks who don't have an ounce of integrity. But other than that, those in today's news media have succeeded admirably in advancing their profession's long-standing tradition of peddling fabricated news and phony narratives.
Only now this has reached a tipping point. We are at a phase in which the news media pose a real threat to freedom of speech itself, a principle they still claim to be duty-bound to uphold, of course. Our "most trusted names in news" now find themselves in the absurd situation of masquerading as arbiters of truth and free speech while actively suppressing both.
Most of the observations in this book may be humorous but all are dead serious when it comes to addressing the threat our "media professionals" pose to our free society today.
