(07-09-2023, 07:21 PM)Ninurta Wrote: ...I don't think that posting negative or concerning things is necessarily a bad thing, to keep folks abreast of situations, but there is no damned doubt at all that too often, the "spin" applied to the raw story is pretty cringe. Just tell me what is going on, don't try to tell me how to think about it - I can figure out my feels all by myself, like any 4 year old can do.
When I read those spin-fests, sometimes I reply with some counter-spin, and sometimes I just walk outside and look around, and breathe a sigh of relief that I can't see ANY of it going on within 70 miles of me. Other times, I CAN see it going on nearby, and just shake my head and think "well that one needs a house dropped on him!" Most of the time, it's the former - there ain't any of it going on for at least 70 miles in any direction of here. That makes me wonder just how prevalent it really is, and why the push to spin it up.
Then I spend a little time trying to weed the garden... and plot and plan on how to drop that house.
Another nail with a beaten head! Exactly, emotionally-stimulating information is a business formula that
is centuries old and no different from the scary stories one's elders used to tell around a campfire or a
travelling troubadour engaging villagers with exciting yarns in pursuit of payment.
If one accepts that 'news stories' are provided in entertainment form and understand that tomorrow,
other information will arise to often conflict with what has been reported before, one may see how
the recipe these outlets adhere to. 'Project Mockingbird' wasn't created to just corral people into a
way of thinking, it uses a distraction-technique because of an average human's attention-span
being so limited.
Gordi often mentions the quote: "Oh look, a squirrel!" and he's correct. Convincing a public to look
in the direction one desires assures attention and hopefully, that attention is connected to the business
that generated the captivating storyline.
This isn't to say there aren't elements of truth in a report, it's just that if delivered in a factual structure,
it is believed any 'add-ons' like a funded agenda or a favoured narrative to enhance a particular mainstream
media's position in the marketplace, could be ineffective and that centuries-old control may slip -not only
from that particular media-out, but possibly into the hands of a rival company.
Look at it another way. Ninurta switches on the TV and discovers the world is rolling along happily with
folks around the globe singing a favourite tune from a 70's Coca-Cola commercial. What is he going to do?
He'll feel good, he feels that he and his kin are safe... but what is terrifying for these media businesses, is
that he may no longer need to concern himself with keeping up with the latest information.
That 'Off'-button on any communication device is one thing that brings night sweats to employees and
CEOs of media companies and partly due to the advent of social-media, 'character'-agencies have sprung
up in many western countries to enhance the delivery of today's 'news'. Infotainment is a big money-maker
and along with its cousin -'Yellow Journalism', is now the favoured manner in many major mediums and
a friend of the political world.
Yes it's propaganda, yes it's inflated stories designed to evoke emotions to make the viewer/reader/listener
to vacillate in their conclusions of obtained information and yes, it is morally erroneous for someone who
deems them self to be honourable in the their profession to perform.
But it makes money and just like that long-ago travelling minstrel intriguing villagers with lurid tales that will
return to their thoughts at bedtime and scream to be enhanced at the next gossip-session in the marketplace,
it guarantees such duplicitous word-smithing is vital to control the hordes who daily feed on this kind of fodder.
Now... did I ever tell you about the man with hair teeth? Stay with us after these important announcements.
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