When Outrage Hides the Truth

On the ‘spiral of silence’ in our media, and how outrage “masks the reality of collusion, creating the illusion of democracy, the illusion of fair markets, the illusion of an independent press.” “We must not cry the alarm at instances of injustice but cry the alarm at pervasive systemic injustice. Atomising each case as if it is anomalous only protects those in power, bolstering the illusion that something is wrong rather than, frankly, everything being wrong.”