{"id":383361,"date":"2018-11-02T15:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-monster-engineered-by-our-media\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T15:26:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:26:34","slug":"a-monster-engineered-by-our-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-monster-engineered-by-our-media\/","title":{"rendered":"a Monster Engineered by Our Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s victory in Brazil\u2019s presidential election at the weekend, the doom-mongers among western elites are out in force once again. His success, like Donald Trump\u2019s, has confirmed a long-held prejudice: that the people cannot be trusted; that, when empowered, they behave like a mob driven by primitive urges; that the unwashed masses now threaten to bring down the carefully constructed walls of civilisation.<\/p>\n

The guardians of the status quo refused to learn the lesson of Trump\u2019s election, and so it will be with Bolsonaro. Rather than engaging the intellectual faculties they claim as their exclusive preserve, western \u201canalysts\u201d and \u201cexperts\u201d are again averting their gaze from anything that might help them understand what has driven our supposed democracies into the dark places inhabited by the new demagogues. Instead, as ever, the blame is being laid squarely at the door of social media.<\/p>\n

Social media and fake news are apparently the reasons Bolsonaro won at the ballot box. Without the gatekeepers in place to limit access to the \u201cfree press\u201d \u2013 itself the plaything of billionaires and global corporations, with brands and a bottom line to protect \u2013 the rabble has supposedly been freed to give expression to their innate bigotry.<\/p>\n

Here is Simon Jenkins, a veteran British gatekeeper \u2013 a former editor of the Times of London who now writes a column in the Guardian<\/em> \u2013 pontificating…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo Source Janine Moraes \/ C\u00e2mara dos Deputados | CC BY 2.0 With Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s victory in Brazil\u2019s presidential election at the weekend, the doom-mongers among western elites are out in force once again. His success, like Donald Trump\u2019s, has confirmed a long-held prejudice: that the people cannot be trusted; that, when empowered, they behave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}