Day 1,628: fakery, hanker, narrowcast, Founding Father, steep something/someone in something, Enlightenment

It may feed mind-scrambling fakery to anyone who hankers after conspiracy.

The American media have passed through narrowcast ages and broadcast ages.

This is closer to a business model the Founding Fathers would have recognised, but rather than creating content for curly-wigged merchants steeped in 18th-century learning, he wants to tear down such Enlightenment values.

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

Artwork of the day 
Enlightenment
Nicholas Roerich
Date: c.1921
Style: Symbolism
Genre: landscape

Word of the day 
fakery: the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
hanker: to have a strong desire for something
narrowcast: to aim a broadcast at a narrowly defined area or audience
Founding Father: one of a group of men who started the UnitedStates as a country and wrote its constitution 
steep something/someone in something: If something or someone is steeped in something, they are completely surrounded by or involved in it, or know a lot about it:
the Enlightenment: the period in the 18th century in Europe when many people began to emphasize the importance of science and reason, rather than religion and tradition

Quote of the day
“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations