Yeah, I’d like to believe that too. Can’t deny the role of the Internet in making geographic, national and even cultural (to some extent) boundaries porous but the breadth and depth of this effect is still unclear.
For instance, all the widespread debunking of the “coalition’s” claims of the Saddam-Al Qaeda links didn’t keep the vast majority of Americans from believing that these links existed. Another example is the Private Lynch story.
It’s not just the biases of the media that are at work here, it’s the cultural affinity of peoples for their glorious myths.
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Yeah, I’d like to believe that too. Can’t deny the role of the Internet in making geographic, national and even cultural (to some extent) boundaries porous but the breadth and depth of this effect is still unclear.
For instance, all the widespread debunking of the “coalition’s” claims of the Saddam-Al Qaeda links didn’t keep the vast majority of Americans from believing that these links existed. Another example is the Private Lynch story.
It’s not just the biases of the media that are at work here, it’s the cultural affinity of peoples for their glorious myths.
—aslam