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All Along the Watchtower<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018There must be some way out of here\u2019
Said the joker to the thief
\u2018There\u2019s too much confusion, I can\u2019t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth\u2019

\u2018No reason to get excited\u2019, the thief he kindly spoke
\u2018 There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we\u2019ve been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late\u2019

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl\u00a0
All Along the Watchtower, by Bob Dylan (1967)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quis custodiet Ipsos custodes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But who will watch the watchmen?
Satires, by Juvenal (2nd Century)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We haven\u2019t published an update on our Fiat News Index<\/a> for a little while, but it is for a good reason. We are working on an improved version that does more to handle gradations, nuance and context in affective language. If the concept of fiat news is new to you, Ben\u2019s original piece here<\/a> offers the best explanation. In short, it is news which broadly cheapens the credibility of media by presenting opinion as fact. It debases information<\/a> in the same way that a capricious sovereign might debase a currency. It tells you how to think.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is a certain type of fiat news which is the most pernicious, most in need of calling out where it rears its head. It seeks, like all fiat news, to present subjective judgments and opinions as fact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All Along the Watchtower \u2018There must be some way out of here\u2019Said the joker to the thief\u2018There\u2019s too much confusion, I can\u2019t get no reliefBusinessmen, they drink my winePlowmen dig my earthNone of them along the line know what any of it is worth\u2019 \u2018No reason to get excited\u2019, the thief he kindly spoke\u2018 There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11737,11060,14850,14851,462,1426,14309,2741,24340],"class_list":["post-43612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-epsilon-theory","tag-fact","tag-fact-checkers","tag-fact-checking","tag-journalism","tag-misinformation","tag-objectivity","tag-opinion","tag-rusty-guinn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43613,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612\/revisions\/43613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}