“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.” –Barack Obama foreign policy adviser, Ben Rhodes
A week ago James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a hot mic rant by ABC’s Amy Robach lamenting her network’s deep-sixing of the Jeffery Epstein saga three years prior. In watching this video clip and tracking the media response to it I was reminded of a scene in Ray Bradbury’s classic 1951 sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451.
For the record, 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns. In Bradbury’s novel, the state employs “firemen” to burn books lest the information they contain challenge the official state narrative. “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” a young woman asks fireman Guy Montag. Montag tells her that’s a crazy idea. “Strange,” she answers. “I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” Montag laughs.
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