Here’s a dual-choice question about making a fortune in a relative hurry — which do you think works better?
A)A hard toil with the truth
or
B)A well-timed tirade?
Here’s another related question: Which is more likely to put you on the fast track to fame?
A)Dispensing a genuine dose of useful information
or
B)Hard-boiled hype
I’ll go with tirade and hype for a quick million and national TV coverage, Bob…
Too often, I think, even here on The Huffington Post, that’s the answer people choose.
The temptations of hype and tirade are obvious, but ultimately you are victimized by them. Distortions and exaggerations can mutate even genuinely useful information into nonsense. In the aggregate, the propagation of hype and propaganda dilutes “information” in such a vast sea of misinformation, it becomes nearly impossible for anyone to find the reliably true.
The flu vaccine is certainly not an attempt by the CDC to carry out genocidal population control — but make the unfounded assertion that it is, and it’s apt to go
