“Today the Soviet Union is gone but newspeak and a thousand forms of disinformation thrive. I can do frontline reporting … and a reader will email to say I didn’t see what I saw because it doesn’t conform to a political narrative. She and the rest of us can fall prey to platform algorithms and manipulated content disgorged from a news cycle that never sleeps. It all leaves us in ‘a state of bloated exhaustion,’ writes Jeffrey Bilbro in his new book, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry in the News.” - TGC
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How the News Disrupts Our Belonging
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