We’ve all heard of “burying the lede.”
This is burying the disclaimer:
When people who are upset about “fake news” talk about “fake news,” they mean things like this podcast. All the real-world connections between the spy novel and Trump are, for lack of a better word, lies:
In a 2004 Boston Globe interview (with Josh), Benjamen first articulated the idea for THEORY OF EVERYTHING: “In public radio there is this received notion that you have to keep fiction and nonfiction segregated. But these days the news sounds like a conspiracy theory, and bloggers promote their own version of events. Objective reportage isn’t working! So I’m pioneering ‘investigative fiction,’ in which a mix of formats — from interviews to radio drama — will reveal the truth about the world.”
