OPINIONISTA: How corruption impacts on your media rand By Chris Botha
Carl Sagan once said: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
But Chris, you are a media guy, what’s this got to do with anything? Well, everything, I would postulate. Only the strong, nimble, agile and intelligent will survive. The end is nowhere in sight. Buckle up, boys and girls, this ain’t getting better any time soon.
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