07-22-2018, 10:41 AM
It easy to bandy around comments that journalism is dead and everything is fake news without
looking at the overall picture. The traditional information medium is struggling as the internet
becomes more and more, an attractive conduit to discover what's happening in the world today.
The main problem is that mainstream journalism lowered the benchmark of reporting down to the
identity politics for ratings reasons and the majority of the public have now seen where they've been
duped.
Of course, some journalists did it for ideological purposes that serves their personal reasons and
some news outlets did it because it assisted their corporate needs. But that's how the world works
and at the end of the day, we're all at fault.
Some Reporters drank the corporate Kool-Aid and others others just saw that it as assurance that
the mortgage gets paid.
The fault -if you like that kind of thing, is those who sold it and those who bought it.
It could be debated that those who deliver commentary and provide opposing views on websites
like Rogue Nation, are no different from the television outlets that have hosts who chat to noted folk
and impart their opinions in the form of discussing news reports.
And it's true, but we need to rise above the 'blame-game' and get back to what has happened in
the whole gamut of information distribution.
Those using website platforms are fighting the traditional media because they believe only one side
of an account is being told and MSM are decorating their reports with emotion-activating phrasing.
Those who sell newspapers and produce television news broadcasts believe anyone with a blog
is limited in their capacity to deliver fair, mature representation of an event and 'just don't get it'
Both are true and both are wrong, and that's where information delivery comes off the rails.
Neutral news-reporting is deemed boring by many of the public, but the judgement to change that
didn't come from the pubic, it came from those reporting.
Once that traditional trust is abused, then it takes a couple of generations to get it back.
But the current perception of being caught pushing a biased political angle or an emotion-enraging
narrative is to double-down to imply a contemplated agreed course instead of admitting the callow
ratings-generated reasons for doing so and promising to do better.
Maybe this is what Trump means when accuses CNN of being fake.
Take the information that's offered from an event and report that, not your own angle.
There's examples in the article below from a Sky correspondent and by taking out certain descriptive words,
the deliberate emotion-provoking illustration changes.
Again, look at the blaming-aspect by using characteristics of an individual who the writer wishes to convince
the reader is 'in the wrong', against the characteristics of the 'victim'.
It doesn't change because by cherry-picking instances of billions of everyday activity around the United States
and using doctrinated trigger-words, a preferred narrative is formed and pushed.
It's deceitful and it's going to take a long time to get it out of a society's system.
Examples of current reporting used in the article below.
'There was the white man harassing a woman because of her Puerto Rico shirt, while a police officer
stands idly by...'
Or
'Man shouts at woman. Policeman is there...'
....................
'...There was another white man threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) to report Spanish-speaking employees at a restaurant in New York...'
Or
'Man didn't like employees at a restaurant and suggested he could have them deported...'
....................
'The black family challenged by a white neighbour over the use of their community's swimming pool...'
Or
'Man doesn't want another family in public swimming pool...'
See how boring and unimportant these accounts are when considering what's going on around the
world? If you're not directly effected by any of these accounts, why would you become upset by reading
about them?
The reason is that with a constant avalanche of these manicured pieces that are formed to enflame a
feeling of a sinister persecution (it could be you next!)... is going on just outside your line-of-sight and
you should be concerned.
If you're not, then you're on 'the bad-side' and not as righteous as those who tell about it.
If you're unimpressed by these accounts, then you won't be in the correct tribe... you're subtly warned
that you'll be an outsider.
It offers the reader an opportunity to feel virtuous without doing anything, a self-balming instance with
little physical input.
And why...? The media -ALL information delivery services don't want you to leave the television, your
daily newspaper or favourite website, because they receive monies if you just sit there and enjoy the
words that make you feel better.
The kicker is that once the game is up, how does journalism get back onto the public's good-side?
That's where we're at -at the moment. There's a lot of people out there who are turning off their
televisions and clicking open a chosen website.
It makes no difference if Alex Jones is growling that the frogs are turning gay or some youngster is
warning that Satanic eateries are hosting Hillary Clinton and her minions.
These web-medias are merely emulating what they've seen on the television, the mainstream media
taught them these tricks.
We all are being told that if knowledge is power, then those wield it can make a difference.
But who's difference...? And do you want that difference? What if a news outlet tells you that many
people you don't know and have never met believe in that difference, then surely you must be with
us?
Surely you can see the Emperor is wearing clothes?
We're as bad as each other.
looking at the overall picture. The traditional information medium is struggling as the internet
becomes more and more, an attractive conduit to discover what's happening in the world today.
The main problem is that mainstream journalism lowered the benchmark of reporting down to the
identity politics for ratings reasons and the majority of the public have now seen where they've been
duped.
Of course, some journalists did it for ideological purposes that serves their personal reasons and
some news outlets did it because it assisted their corporate needs. But that's how the world works
and at the end of the day, we're all at fault.
Some Reporters drank the corporate Kool-Aid and others others just saw that it as assurance that
the mortgage gets paid.
The fault -if you like that kind of thing, is those who sold it and those who bought it.
It could be debated that those who deliver commentary and provide opposing views on websites
like Rogue Nation, are no different from the television outlets that have hosts who chat to noted folk
and impart their opinions in the form of discussing news reports.
And it's true, but we need to rise above the 'blame-game' and get back to what has happened in
the whole gamut of information distribution.
Those using website platforms are fighting the traditional media because they believe only one side
of an account is being told and MSM are decorating their reports with emotion-activating phrasing.
Those who sell newspapers and produce television news broadcasts believe anyone with a blog
is limited in their capacity to deliver fair, mature representation of an event and 'just don't get it'
Both are true and both are wrong, and that's where information delivery comes off the rails.
Neutral news-reporting is deemed boring by many of the public, but the judgement to change that
didn't come from the pubic, it came from those reporting.
Once that traditional trust is abused, then it takes a couple of generations to get it back.
But the current perception of being caught pushing a biased political angle or an emotion-enraging
narrative is to double-down to imply a contemplated agreed course instead of admitting the callow
ratings-generated reasons for doing so and promising to do better.
Maybe this is what Trump means when accuses CNN of being fake.
Take the information that's offered from an event and report that, not your own angle.
There's examples in the article below from a Sky correspondent and by taking out certain descriptive words,
the deliberate emotion-provoking illustration changes.
Again, look at the blaming-aspect by using characteristics of an individual who the writer wishes to convince
the reader is 'in the wrong', against the characteristics of the 'victim'.
It doesn't change because by cherry-picking instances of billions of everyday activity around the United States
and using doctrinated trigger-words, a preferred narrative is formed and pushed.
It's deceitful and it's going to take a long time to get it out of a society's system.
Examples of current reporting used in the article below.
'There was the white man harassing a woman because of her Puerto Rico shirt, while a police officer
stands idly by...'
Or
'Man shouts at woman. Policeman is there...'
....................
'...There was another white man threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) to report Spanish-speaking employees at a restaurant in New York...'
Or
'Man didn't like employees at a restaurant and suggested he could have them deported...'
....................
'The black family challenged by a white neighbour over the use of their community's swimming pool...'
Or
'Man doesn't want another family in public swimming pool...'
See how boring and unimportant these accounts are when considering what's going on around the
world? If you're not directly effected by any of these accounts, why would you become upset by reading
about them?
The reason is that with a constant avalanche of these manicured pieces that are formed to enflame a
feeling of a sinister persecution (it could be you next!)... is going on just outside your line-of-sight and
you should be concerned.
If you're not, then you're on 'the bad-side' and not as righteous as those who tell about it.
If you're unimpressed by these accounts, then you won't be in the correct tribe... you're subtly warned
that you'll be an outsider.
It offers the reader an opportunity to feel virtuous without doing anything, a self-balming instance with
little physical input.
And why...? The media -ALL information delivery services don't want you to leave the television, your
daily newspaper or favourite website, because they receive monies if you just sit there and enjoy the
words that make you feel better.
The kicker is that once the game is up, how does journalism get back onto the public's good-side?
That's where we're at -at the moment. There's a lot of people out there who are turning off their
televisions and clicking open a chosen website.
It makes no difference if Alex Jones is growling that the frogs are turning gay or some youngster is
warning that Satanic eateries are hosting Hillary Clinton and her minions.
These web-medias are merely emulating what they've seen on the television, the mainstream media
taught them these tricks.
We all are being told that if knowledge is power, then those wield it can make a difference.
But who's difference...? And do you want that difference? What if a news outlet tells you that many
people you don't know and have never met believe in that difference, then surely you must be with
us?
Surely you can see the Emperor is wearing clothes?
We're as bad as each other.
Quote:Sky Views: Something really nasty is on the rise in America.SOURCE:
Greg Milam, US correspondent
'While we all fixate on Donald Trump and Russia, hate is boiling up across the United States.
The latest numbers -hate crimes increased in 2017 in America's 10 largest cities -are one thing.
The videos of what America is becoming are even more shocking.
Every day seems to bring a new mobile video of hate, intolerance or aggression, generally based
on race or religion, and some of them get a lot of attention.
There was the white man harassing a woman because of her Puerto Rico shirt, while a police officer
stands idly by. There was another white man threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) to report Spanish-speaking employees at a restaurant in New York.
The black family challenged by a white neighbour over the use of their community's swimming pool.
In fact numerous incidents of the police being called to report black people for, just as an example,
having a barbecue, delivering newspapers, buying a meal or - most notoriously - selling water on
the street.
There was pretty swift backlash against some of those who called the cops -including the ones mocked
online as 'Permit Patty' and 'BBQ Betty' - and the swimming pool guy lost his job.
The lawyer who threatened to call ICE has apologised and says he isn't a racist.
But even while writing this, social media has lit up with the video of a white man repeatedly using the
n-word towards another driver. That's just some of the filmed incidents. How many more are there when
someone didn't have a camera to hand or was too intimidated or shocked to record what was going on?
So, who or what is to blame?
It's easy to say it is the consequence of the country being led by a president who routinely denigrates
Latinos and Muslims, talks of "shithole countries" and western "culture" being threatened by immigration.
It's easy to say for a reason. If he has no shame about hurling insults, why would anyone else?
A group which studies hate crimes and extremism says "incivility" in national politics, including language
surrounding the president's controversial travel ban for example, is a factor in the increase in incidents.
They also say there are usually more hate crimes in election year -and 2018 is an election year in America.
A country that was built by migrants has become an angry, polarised place. Plenty of people talk about
healing the division, no one has yet demonstrated the leadership to do it.
Depressingly, for now it looks like only check on hateful behaviour is the fear of being caught on camera
and shamed online.
And even that doesn't stop some...'
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