Manageable public cynicism about media protects the status quo

Evidence

A manageable level of cynicism about the media actually serves the capitalist realist media system well. Since the media stands in for the public sphere, if journalists and politicians are perceived to be “all liars”, as they widely are, then there is no hope to be had in public life at all. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1570

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: PR and propaganda succeed because the collective fiction is allowed to stay ignorant — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 95; Managed public cynicism about media neutralizes hope in public life — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1570