In 1976 Erich Fromm, recognised as one of the world’s most influential thinkers on social issues, when outlining what could be done to create a better society, wrote in To Have or To Be: “A system of effective dissemination of effective information must also be established.
Information is a crucial element in the formation of an effective democracy … the so-called great newspapers inform better, but they also misinform better; by not publishing all the news impartially; by slanting headlines in addition to writing headlines that often do not conform with their accompanying text; by being partisan in their editorials, written under the cover of seemingly reasonable and moralising language.