Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt said the quiet part out loud on Tuesday when he admitted that what most people were consuming on a daily basis was not “the news,” but rather “the news business.”
Oswalt made the comments during an appearance on ABC’s midday talk show “The View,” where he also noted that a lot of the heightened dramatics of “the news” were designed to attract viewers rather than to tell them the truth.
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Patton Oswalt admits that “you are being exposed to the news business rather than the news” and we’re not as close to “the brink” as the media would have us believe:
“We have been way closer to the brink than we are now.” pic.twitter.com/Ibl50w7OyF— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 12, 2024
Oswalt has been promoting his new show “Manhunt,” which digs into the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the search for…
