'Bear in mind Us': How To Combat Media Bombholing

A pair years in the past the journalist Matt Taibbi got here up with a telling new time period for the way in which the media works in our time: bombholing. Bombholing is the observe of publishing wild and unsubstantiated tales within the press, then sending those self same tales down the reminiscence gap after they transform false. Then the media hits viewers with a brand new "bombshell," which makes folks overlook the outdated "bombshell." Viewers are led "from mania to mania."