{"id":63405,"date":"2017-06-08T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T12:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63405"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T12:23:20","slug":"fake-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63405","title":{"rendered":"Fake Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Hollywood is where they make movies, fictional stories presented for entertainment.\u00a0 They are carefully scripted, staged and shot to show the best angles and most effective presentation.<\/p>\n

Pallywood is the term given to movies made by Palestinians, fictional stories presented to gin up outrage against Israel.\u00a0 They are carefully scripted, staged and shot to show the best angles and most effective presentation.<\/p>\n

And now we have CNN-wood, a fictional story presented by CNN<\/a> to pretend that ordinary Muslims are against ISIS and Islamic terrorism.\u00a0 The story was carefully scripted, staged and shot to show the best angles and most effective presentation.<\/p>\n

Movies that we know show fake scenes is one thing.\u00a0 We willingly suspend disbelief to enjoy the story.\u00a0 Propaganda that we suspect may be fake is something else, but we are suspicious enough not to be taken in.<\/p>\n

The news media creating a news story that it knows to be fake, but which it presents as the truth, is a deliberate lie told with intent to deceive.\u00a0 If we cannot rely on the news to report honestly, how can we distinguish it from propaganda?\u00a0 And if we can\u2019t distinguish it, why should we give journalists any respect?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(MItch: \u00a0we can’t, good question, and as a group we should not; there\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>honest journos, but the institutions are rotten to the core).<\/p>\n

Stories like this validate Trump\u2019s assertion that the major media is fake news.<\/p>\n

They make Trump credible.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I think about half of this country knows that.<\/p>\n

(And a quarter thinks the media is in the bag for the right. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0They’re out there somewhere).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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