Stellar profile on a phenomenon I knew existed for my lifetime, and at fever pitch the last 15-20 years especially. Sharyl Attkison might be the Walter Cronkite figure of her time, she does a great job of telling the truth and bowing down to no one in the media. Astroturfing may be the only bi-partisan practice in politics today. Every one is "wing-nut, conspiracy theorist," etc. Absolute golden content on why the truth is so hard to attain, especially from the bigger the media conglomerates' interest reporting. Thanks for adding a much needed word to my vocabulary @treebuilder, found your article on the q-filter hash tag, the search is jacked with stellar content, which makes my steemit searches now very easy!