My first book fifty years ago was a study of television news, called Creating Reality. The title was intended to show the irony of how news reporting could distort things in order to make them more ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Do we create reality with our minds? I got this question on twitter the other day and after rolling my eyes about it for some while, I decided it’s actually a good question.

We live in a time when words are important, more than ever, it may seem, and the media is also essential in that connection. If an event hasn't been reported on regular or social media, indeed on TV ...