A prominent Indian independent news site destroys its own credibility
The Wire’s own-goal holds lessons for opposition forces everywhere
ONE CONSTANT throughout the original nine seasons of “The X-Files”, a globally syndicated American television show about a pair of FBI special agents assigned to weird cases, is a poster in the background. Mounted on a wall in the agents’ dingy basement office, it shows a grainy picture of a flying saucer and is emblazoned with a slogan in large sans-serif letters: “I WANT TO BELIEVE”. This sentiment ultimately (two-decade-old spoiler alert!) helps the agents uncover a massive conspiracy involving the government and a technologically superior society capable of magical feats (in this case, space aliens).
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Trust no one”
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