How?
Buck the popular narrative, no matter how false that narrative is.
Covid, for instance.
A cinematic example: Adrian Cronauer, Robin Williams’ character, in 1987’s Good Morning, Vietnam was drinking at the G.I. bar, Jimmy Wah’s, only to be rushed out at the last moment by his Vietnamese “friend” Tuan.
Well, a bomb went off, killing two American soldiers. Cronouer was more than shaken-up. So Cronauer, an armed forces disc jockey went into the studio, attempting to relay the news of the explosion to the troops in the field over Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam.
Sgt. Major Dickerson, played by the great character actor J.T. Walsh, pronounces the bomb explosion and the deaths as “unofficial news.” Can’t report it.
Cronauer locked himself inside the studio and reported it anyway.
Spoiler Alert: he was soon fired…for telling the truth.
And so it goes…
Then ther…
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