The global religious right weaponizes distrust of journalism as a defense shield

Evidence

Having long recognized the utility of an attack on truth itself, speaker after speaker pillories “fake news.” “It doesn’t matter if 10,000 articles tell lies about us, we walk in the footsteps of heroes,” says Brian Brown, president of the International Organization for the Family, the sponsor of World Congress of Families. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 966

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media attacks destroyed the right’s immunity to false information — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 262; Journalistic both-sides coverage can be weaponized to manufacture public ignorance — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 628; Journalistic objectivity is a recent convention enabling shared trust markers rather than actual truth. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 74

Broader Connections

• Media attacks destroyed the right’s immunity to false information #complicates (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 262
• Journalistic both-sides coverage can be weaponized to manufacture public ignorance #complicates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 628
• Journalistic objectivity is a recent convention enabling shared trust markers rather than actual truth. #expands (0.72) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 74