Good information needs hard work

Information that is too easy to come by is usually a sign that a lot of money has gone into making it available to you. Money is what removes the friction. Money is the grease that oils the cogs of message production.

Things work so well for the manipulators of the message — those who ‘manufacture consent’ — because they have full control of the media that is consumed with so little friction. Both TV and the newspapers are controlled by and for the interests of those who rule. And by ‘rule’, don’t think I’m talking simply of those in government. We no longer have a…