Day 1,629: sleight, suffrage

These ideas will be challenged by newsrooms that see “objectivity” as a sleight of hand which privileged groups use to embed their own power.

America progressed from narrowcast media and a limited franchise in the early days of the republic to broadcast media and universal suffrage.

Can you have a healthy democracy without a common set of facts?

Artwork of the day 
The sleight of hand in the barn
Ludwig Knaus
Original Title: Der taschenspieler in der scheune
Date: 1862
Style: Academicism,Realism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil

Word of the day 
sleight of hand: speed and skill of the hand when performingtricks
suffrage: the right to vote in an election, especially to vote for representatives in a government:

Quote of the day
“That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.”

― Andrew Vachss, Mask Market