History has always been written by the victors. But once radio and television became owned by global syndicates, it definitely became much worse.

About 15 years ago, I dated a woman who worked as an archivist for one of Canada's largest media outlets. Quite frequently, she would be asked to archive two opposing articles using the same video feed. For simplicity, let's say that one was strongly conservative leaning and the other was strongly liberal leaning.

This means that two audio recordings were made, two speeches were written for the narrator.

At a minimum, 1 producer, 1 writer, 1 narrator and 1 archivist needed to be involved in this "capturing of the truth" - but noone ever blows the whistle. It just pays the bills and you don't want to upset the unions.

Anytime the news needs to pull up a video from the past, they enter the keywords and usually are returned 2 feeds. One Left leaning and the other right. Then, the producer decides which of the 2 slants they'd like to use that day.

These archives are shared by print media, radio and television. So there's really no way to avoid it.

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What I meant to say was .... I 100% agree with you that it's very unfortunate that the media figured this out a very long time ago. 🤓