Tag: New York Times

“…. one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags. The reality is that if you have the ability to overwhelm the media ecosystem with lies, you make the cost of engaging in public debate so high that it becomes an existential one.”… David Pressman, outgoing Ambassador to Hungary, a nation that controls most media and whose “dictator” Viktor Orban (Trump & Orban are mutual fanboys) considers the US one of Hungary’s “top three adversaries.” From the NYTimes, 02/02/25