mihau schrieb am 09.04.2024 19:34:
Richtiger - weil näher an der Wahrheit - wäre vermutlich so etwas wie "Pre$$titutes" (M. Broeckers).
Hier mal ein Zitat von 1875 (Für die Generation Z das ist 150 Jahre her)
John Swinton (Journalist)
"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
150$ waren 1875 sehr, sehr viel Geld. Intellektuelle Prostituierte trifft es ganz gut.
„Wir können die Herrschenden und ihre Handlanger nicht dazu zwingen, die Wahrheit zu akzeptieren; aber wir können sie dazu zwingen, immer unverschämter zu lügen."
Das stammt aus dem "gesichert linkextremem Umfeld" der Terroristin Ulrike Meinhof.
Deshalb muss es aber nicht zwingend falsch sein.
So neu sind die Probleme mit der Wahrheit also nicht.