Truth: The enemy of the press by tarazkp

truth · @tarazkp · Aug 16 '18

$11.39

Truth: The enemy of the press

*1. They hate you.*
*2. Hate you deeply*
*3. Do you know how much they dislike you?*
*4. All of them that hate you.*
*5. Everyone knows you are hated*
*6. Listen, to them speak their hate.*
*7. This person thinks you are weak, nothing.*
*8. This is the face of the enemy.*
*9. Watch this person demonstrate their hate for you.*
*10. They hate all you stand for, they hate all of you*
*11. Listen to this expert explain their hate.*
*12. You are a victim of hate.*
*13. You are a victim.*

Rinse and repeat, repeat and rinse.

https://i.imgur.com/yZDhhPb.jpg

>Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
>*Adolf Hitler*

It is a good quote, despite the source. This is an interesting thing as often we use the reputation of the source as a qualifying factor for the information provided rather than the information itself. Is the information contained in the words a lie, would it be more or less accepted if it came from a more reputable source? Tell a lie often enough and it will not only lead to belief, it will become actionable and what started a lie can become reality, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I do not watch the news as there is little in there for me that I find useful to improve my experience and nothing to add to my skill set. For me, the news no longer delivers events, it delivers agenda, narrow perspectives and engineered information created to polarize and separate without offering space for discourse, room to discuss. It positions itself as an authority and then overreaches its bounds. This is my opinion, you can have yours.

For me, the news has become a vehicle to transport propaganda to the audience en masse but that audience is separated by various ideologies and grouped to consume from a narrow band of sources that are tailored to deliver what satisfies their desires but more importantly, feed their fears.

And there is a news cycle and nothing lasts long in the system before being chewed and replaced by the next irrelevance, the next senseless tweet, scandal or molehill turned to mountain. With the drop in income for real journalists, it is all about speed of output, not quality and without longevity of information, it must earn fast by churning often and then be spat out to make way for the next partly formed, opinionated piece designed to sway the audience, make them feel.

Clipped images and sound bites of information delivered and repeated that cover the chosen events for 5 minutes but get repeated 48 times in the life cycle of the news day. Deliver, rinse, repeat. With the speed of the churn and burn, not only is there no time for quality investigative journalism, there is no time to investigate if it is quality or not. A lot slips through the cracks of time as the next emergency takes precedence over investigating the potential flaws and nuances of the last.

Read, watch, listen to the easy to swallow, easy to remember, emotionally charged messages designed like a sales pitch. Keep getting *Yes* as the answer. Yes, that is terrible. Yes, they are bad. Yes, something must be done. Yes, go and do it. Yes, yes, yes, I will support you because your fears are now my fears, you have shown me the truth. I believe. Act for me. Please, save us from our enemies.

Do you trust the media, do you believe in fake news? Does the fake news happen to always be what the other side is listening to? Is the fake news on the left, or the right? Does it depend on where you stand? Do you know the source, do you trust the source, is it syndicated information, who is the reporter, their background, who pays their salary? Does it matter? Maybe not if you trust *your* source.

Are you objective? Are you certain?

When I was at school, we did a semester on *bias in the media* for our English class. After looking at examples of manipulation, investigating current news and repeatedly finding them in just about every piece read, I became very biased. I haven't trusted the media since. That was in 1995 and in my opinion, media bias has only slid further into political agenda and social engineering territory. As said, *my* opinion.

This is not just the mass media, this is all media as each source *has a position* that means they benefit from the audience either directly though subscription or indirectly though advertising revenue. It is not about information, it is about market segmentation and holding attention to increase time on site metrics. It is about audience approval and pleas to emotion to attach the audience to the source, to trust the source, to keep buying the brand of information they are selling.

The market doesn't have to be large, just engaged, compelled, *believers.* The information blurs into the background as the personality becomes the trusted source, not what they say. Anything can be said and for a fan, none of it is wrong or, all is forgiven when it is. After all, this engineered personality is fighting the good fight, attempting to preserve our way of life and save us from our common enemies. Those who disagree, those who question, they are agents of the enemy sent to undermine the message, weaken resolve.

You watch, they watch, we watch and all consume, accepting what supports their world view, rejecting what does not. Each market segment sectioned off, walls erected, points of polarization installed so that no common ground can be found. Not that it matters, why would one try to find common ground with the enemy?

***Is this a work of fiction?***

Taraz
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@mohsinali · Aug 16 '18

Great job ! Keep it up ! @tarazkp

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@hashcash · Aug 16 '18 (edited)

$0.04

A few months ago I did a post on weirdly true and important things that dictators spoke of and I came across this:

>The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force
-Adolf Hitler

Sometimes I watch the faces of some of the most famous media personalities deliver their spiel and I see something really disturbing there. There is zeal and then their a zeal of zealot and its never a pretty sight to look at.

👍 tarazkp, prince-maanisaad

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@tarazkp · Aug 16 '18

Celebrity is about popularity and people like to feel connected to someone that legitimizes their feelings, speaks 'their' brand of truth and makes them feel like they know.

👍 prince-maanisaad

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@hlezama · Aug 16 '18

$0.68

You are right. We have a lot of that going on in Venezuela (from all sides). Part of our desperation lies precisely on not knowing what or who to believe.
I disagree with you in one aspect, though. The no-watching of the news. If we are critical enough, which most adults should be (i know it does not work that easily) we should be able to discern and sometimes it is necessary to collect all those sound bites and agendas in order for us to be able to construct an argument against media or political manipulation (which are ultimately connected).
In Venezuela, Maduro's administration, like Chavez's before him, has deviated attention to their incapacity and corruption uttering all kinds of platitudes that have been believed by some people, enough i'd say to keep him in office. The "economic war", "the empire", "the fascist of the right", "the terrorist university students"; while they are the "revolution of love and peace."
It's sickening. But we should see and read what they put out to create arguments against them, memories for the future.

👍 shaka, tarazkp

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@tarazkp · Aug 16 '18

$0.64

>If we are critical enough, which most adults should be

It is the "which most adults should be" part of the statement that is an issue. There is a difference between 'should and 'are'.

>The "economic war", "the empire", "the fascist of the right", "the terrorist university students"; while they are the "revolution of love and peace."

Words iterated by leaders the world over adjusted to suit their audience. It is like a script.

👍 shaka

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@hlezama · Aug 17 '18

I agree. Both things are frustrating: the idiocy of most adults and the endless iteration of populist scripts, which is in a way the result of having an audience who does not question the veracity of the information politicians spread. 
Thoreau wrote in <EM>Civil Disobedience</EM>

>Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

I couldn't agree more.

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@markkujantunen · Aug 16 '18 (edited)

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<blockquote>
Do you trust the media, do you believe in fake news? Does the fake news happen to always be what the other side is listening to? Is the fake news on the left, or the right? Does it depend on where you stand? Do you know the source, do you trust the source, is it syndicated information, who is the reporter, their background, who pays their salary? Does it matter? Maybe not if you trust your source.
</blockquote>

Right now, I trust the media more than those who cry <i>fake media</i>. The standards of the news media may have gone down in the Internet era and with the breakdown of the subscription model and lowered expectations. But guess who will benefit the most from the use of the very word <i>fake news</i> or <i>fake media</i>.

By repeating the term <i>fake media</i> we accomplish absolutely nothing but a further nihilistic dismantling of any journalistic standards - fully taken advantage of by scumbags like Donald Trump. There is no objective journalism and has never been. But the answer is not to cry <i>fake media</i> but for those who feel their political opinions are not adequately heard in public discourse to establish their own outlets. A free market of ideas is always better than anything else.

Not all haters of the press are authoritarian. But for practical purposes they might as well be.  Some complaints made by the alt-right may have had some merit until they came to power. These people deserve no charity, no quarter now that their leader holds the highest executive power in the USA.

👍 shaka, tarazkp, prince-maanisaad

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@tarazkp · Aug 16 '18

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>Right now, I trust the media more than those who cry fake media. 

All claim fake media, no matter what side of any position anyone stands. This is the polarisation of market segments. No matter where one stands they are right and the other is wrong. There is no concession between points, no charity and very few willing to engage in true discourse. 

> A free market of ideas is always better than anything else.

It has been a free market of ideas for a long time but, the marketers control the market, just like advertising that directs people into buying decisions. The news media is a product for entertainment purposes where one can choose what show to watch depending on personal preferences. There is no need to be objective if one always feels right.

👍 shaka, markkujantunen, protoken

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@markkujantunen · Aug 16 '18

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<blockquote>
All claim fake media, no matter what side of any position anyone stands. This is the polarisation of market segments. No matter where one stands they are right and the other is wrong. There is no concession between points, no charity and very few willing to engage in true discourse.
</blockquote>

The polarization you're talking about is a real thing. You're right about that. Partly, the alt-right phenomenon is the result of progressives and cultural leftists resorting to underhanded tactics. The silencing of professors at universities and crowds of hecklers disturbing lecturers with un-PC opinions is something that we've grow accustomed to hearing about in some American universities. But now that the leading alt-right figure is president in the US, there is an actual anti-intellectual in office who seems to actually want to take measures to silence the critical press.

A free market of ideas is always better than anything else.

<blockquote>
It has been a free market of ideas for a long time but, the marketers control the market, just like advertising that directs people into buying decisions. The news media is a product for entertainment purposes where one can choose what show to watch depending on personal preferences. There is no need to be objective if one always feels right.
</blockquote>

So, you're saying that different audiences have been effectively siloed to create echo chambers for maximum marketing efficiency. Ok. What do you propose be done about it?

👍 shaka

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@lucylin · Aug 16 '18

$0.04

Are you getting political , sir?
(I don't think I ever read a 'politcal' post quite like this, from yourself)
Welcome aboard!

Good post!

👍 tarazkp, prince-maanisaad

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@tarazkp · Aug 16 '18

I am not political, I just call things as I see it. I am opinionated and always have been.

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@soo.chong163 · Aug 16 '18

When has any vehicle for information creation and dissemination not been imposition of one's will and perpective upon another?  Either you are selling your bullshit or buying someone else's.  Only in the degenerate Western world, in which critical thinking has been atrophied, would humans believe in the psychosis of "nonbiased" or "neutral" information.

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@cryptoandcoffee · Aug 16 '18

Hi Taraz. I used to like watching 60 minutes as it was meant to be the so called truth. I don't know if it still runs or has been shelved but the news is good for certain things that you can see have happened but nothing when it comes to debating as it is all PC.

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@minismallholding · Aug 16 '18

I've never been a big follower of news, but less so now. I think people are quite surprised that I'm never aware of the latest scandals. Anything considered really important I'll hear from others anyway. 

When I do happen to catch a bit of news I either end up wondering why they are wasting air time on it or picking up on all the bias. Either way it reminds me why I don't watch it. If there's ever an announcement that we're at war I'll probably be oblivious until I get a call from hubby at work or a message from a friend who knows I've probably missed the announcement! XD

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@prince-maanisaad · Aug 17 '18

News and media should be as objective and bias-free as possible. But unfortunately, they are not. This concept of agenda-setting is prevalent in most companies in today's time. &#128533; So, one way to tackle this is to watch both sides of the news. For any given topic, watch both CNN and Fox News and then understand that the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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